Frank Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, And Le Corbusier

The word utopia is often heard throughout life. This word has come to become a word with a great variety of definitions. It has become a concept that, when fully examined and studied, represents the idea of perfection. The word was first mentioned by Thomas More in his book titled Utopia. (8) However concept was not new, More just coined the term that would be used to describe his idea. Plato’s Republic and Augustine’s City of God all spoke of ideal political, social, and economic states. (8) This term carries on today and is constantly redefined and applied to many situations.

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright, an American architect that was considered to be one of the greatest in the 20th century. He was a pioneer in the modern style of architecture. For more than 70 years, frank showed his countrymen ways to build their homes and see the world around them. He created some of the most monumental, and some of most intimate space in America. He has designed everything from banks and resorts, office buildings and churches, a filling station and a synagogue, a beer garden and an art museum.

Through a multitude of significant changes physically, conceptually, economically, and more, the societal reformation of cities in the Progressive Era had set themselves as the foundations of American civilization. The juxtaposition between the rich and poor statuses in these urban areas show the drastic separation within developing cities. Through this division caused a wide variety of living conditions, the majority of which held the overcrowded sections of cities where the population mostly stayed while the higher end communities had more luxurious lives. Through this success of entrepreneurship and economic growth from all aspects in cities, the entire landscape, both physically through innovative architecture and the perspectives outside rural and suburban areas had on them, had transformed for the better in these areas.

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright was a Nature lover and an architect. He reflected on the natural world and applied existing styles to his architecture. He was born in Wisconsin, on June 8, 1867, and died in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 9, 1959, at the age of 91. His architectural career spanned two centuries and lasted for 70 years. During the last year of his life he authored a book and was working on 166 different commissions; when asked about when he would slow down, he replied when the ideas stop coming to him.

In class, we talked about three utopian ideas that were actually put into action in a few cities. The first is the city beautiful movement. The design is just like the name makes it sounds; the idea that everything in the city will be designed with beauty in mind. This meant that it would reflect the rebirth of the United States through confidence and class of mostly prominent, architectchally sound buildings. A real example is Central Park in New York City. Despite the rapidly changing population of New York, this design is clearly thriving. The next utopian idea was from Le Corbusier called the Radiant City. His idea stemmed from changing the polluted industrial city into a clean one. He wanted to do this by making taller buildings where large amounts of people would reside to ensure for more green space. One can see a city that reflects this design idea in Brasilla. The last utopian idea is called the garden city by Ebenezer Howard and was implemented in Greenbelt, Maryland for one example. The garden city utopia is designed in concentric rings with a mix between a country and a city feel. Howard thought if the city had both the country and the city feel that everyone would want to live

The cities that made up medieval Europe were small by our modern day standards, but the people of this time period considered them large. Cities were often unorganized and messy. They did not understand the idea of blocks and systems to organize cities yet. Thomas More critiques the style of the cities in Utopia. He states that the perfect city would be near a river with stone bridges for citizens to cross on. The river provides a generous supply of drinking water, which the citizens transport throughout the city using a network of pipes. Defensive walls and ditches surrounding the city provide protection. The streets are well organized, which greatly contrasts those of medieval European cities. Also, large houses were not greatly valued

A man of many talents and disciplines, Frank Lloyd Wright is arguably one of the most creative architects of the 20th century. Even before he was born, his mother, Anna Lloyd Jones claimed that her child would build beautiful buildings. To prepare for Wright’s arrival, Jones decorated his nursery with engravings of English Cathedrals from periodicals to motivate him as an infant. On June 8, 1867, Lloyd was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. However, after three years, the family moved to Weymouth Massachusetts because Wright’s Father, William Wright, was a baptist minister who wanted to minster a small congregation.

This ratio 1:1.61,occurs over and over again in nature. It is found in everything from the shape of our universe, the structure of clouds, and the even the proportions of the human body. People have put it into everything from mathematics, to artwork, and music, fractal dimensions have been calculated to be used frequently for Frank Lloyd Wright's and Le Corbusier's buildings. It can be found that both architects use the method of increasingly smaller rectangular grids. Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings display a self-similar characteristic over a wide range of scales. However for this specific project, Wright was following the brilliant example of his teacher, Louis Sullivan.By contrast, Le Corbusier's architecture displays a characteristic over

Frank Lloyd Wright “.......having a good start not only do I fully intend to be the greatest architect who

“The best that can be said of the conception is that it did afford a chance to experiment with some physical and social planning theories which did not pan out. “ This quote reflects Jane Jacob’s philosophical ideas in an attempt to criticize the social housing’s design approach and its

As a result of a booming development of the nineteenth century city, “progressive” architects of the time started to deliberate and conceive opinions to create long term solutions. Known for his radical cultural manifestos, Le Corbusier is one of the architects that epitomizes the change in ideal of the Machine

The city has never stopped its pace of development since new technologies bought the city a new lease of life. As a reason, it created many opportunities associated with transport, infrastructure, manufacturing that influence people’s lifestyle in terms of urban form and population. The purpose of this paper is to

Garden cities, whether the appropriate concept in sustainable urban planning? Introduction It is widely acknowledged that Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City stimulated many significant urban design achievements in worldwide. Whether the theory is still suitable for sustainable urban planning in twenty-one century has been widely discussed. Some approvers argue that Howard provided the

Living in the Countryside is better than the City. There are around seven billion people all over the world reside in our mother Earth, a large portion of them are urbanites. People in this modern era, especially young generation would prefer to live in the large metropolises rather than living in a countryside or small town. Because of urbanization, people still continuous pelting along into the already herded city. Most of the society thinks that it is better to leave the urban areas than living in the countryside while my inclination is to oppose this concept. It was full of blessings to live in a countryside compare to living in the big cities.

Around 1910, the idea of garden city began to be emphasized and developed. There are planners started to rework Howard’s idea of decentralizing social city into accommodate metropolitan growth in partially self-contained satellites towns (Ward,1992). These cities would be physically distinct, with extensive