Modern Organic Architecture

A CONTRAST OF FORMS: Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modernism, Organic Architecture, and the Sarasota School of Architecture

A look at some of the modern 20th century architecture with the likes of

A. Gaudi, F.L. Wright, A. Loos, B. Goff, A. Aalto, B. Zevi, J. Lautner, A. Dyson,

G. Michelucci, F. Hundertwasser, P. Soleri, P. Rudolph, Le Corbusier, Eliot Noyes and lots of others influential and/or controversial architects. We will explore how a sometimes contradictory architecture can be re-applied to fit into the new “green movement.” Beside designs, concepts and styles we will talk about how green construction techniques and materials can be applied to modern buildings.

18 LU/CEU in 2 days, 9 Lu/CEU in one day

Approved by IDEC, IIDA, ASID, AIA for HSW.

Accepted by FLORIDA BOARD OF ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGN

And most State Boards of Architecture and Interior Design

FOR ARCHITECTS & INTERIOR DESIGNERS

"So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but instead exalting the simple laws of common sense or of super-sense if you prefer determining form by way of the nature of materials..."

- Frank Lloyd Wright, An Organic Architecture, 1939

The term "Organic Architecture" was coined by Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959), though not very well explained by his ambiguous style of writing: