ARC 388M/350R
Organic Design Workshop

Instructor: Dr. Anthony Alofsin
Time: T 2:00 - 5:00
Place: WMB 4.118
Unique #s: 910/630

Prerequisites

For graduates and undergraduates. Permission of instructor is required and enrollment is limited to 15. This course may be taken independently of Frank Lloyd Wright: Life and Work, but students who have taken a previous course on Wright=s work will especially benefit from this workshop

Course Format

This seminar/workshop will focus on studying concepts of organic design, including the design principles of Frank Lloyd Wright's work. After a survey of models and definitions of Aorganic architecture, students will conduct a series of analytical exercises to identify the methods of Wright designs. Analyses will utilize drawings, photographs, and other documentary materials. Following the analytical exercises, students will generate their own designs using Aorganic@ principles. Analyses and design studies that are virtual or computer generated are encouraged.

Educational Objectives

The course intends to develop skills for analyzing design processes in a theoretical and historical context and to apply those analyses to generate form; to familiarize the student with design principles of organic architecture.

Evaluation

Grades will be based on class participation and analytical exercises (two-thirds) and a final project (one-third).

Texts: Required Course Reader available at Speedway Copies in Dobie Mall.
Recommended, but not required, for purchase:
Frank Lloyd Wright, Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, Dover, 1983 ,ppb.
_____________, The Early Work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Dover, 1982.ppb.
Owen Jones, The Grammar of Ornament. any edition with all plates.
William Allin Storrer. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN 0-226-77624-7. CD ROM also available
Anthony Alofsin, Frank Lloyd Wright: the Lost Years, 1910-1922, Chicago: University of Chicago, 1993. ISBN 0-226-01366-9; paperback edition, 1998
Louis H. Sullivan, A System of Architectural Ornament New York: Rizzoli International, 1990.ISBN 0-8478-1109-3 OUT OF PRINT-buy one if you can find it.!