FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S ARCHITECTURE AS ANALYSIS: WRIGHT'S "STUFF".
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Title
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S ARCHITECTURE AS ANALYSIS: WRIGHT'S "STUFF".
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Identifier
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AAI8501170
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identifier
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8501170
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Creator
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SATLER, GAIL R.
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Contributor
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Michael Brown
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Date
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1984
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Social Structure and Development | Architecture | Biography
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Abstract
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This study analyses the sociological problem of architecture by examining the very definition of architecture as it has been used in sociological investigations. Existing literature assumes that the definition of architecture--the enclosure of space--is unproblematic. By failing to come to grips with the definitional problem any subsequent analysis or description from the start is unable to tap into what constitutes the essential and critical assumptions on the part of the architect in creating the structure we view. Each architectural work includes a particular notion of individual and the role he or she will play in the structure, as well as some notion of the role the surrounding environment and component parts will play in the larger whole. It is misleading to assume architects view notions of space, enclosure and society in the same way sociologists do. It is necessary then to begin with a review of how architecture is being defined by the architect.;By utilizing the works of Frank Lloyd Wright an alternative paradigm for viewing and understanding architecture is offered. Specifically, the study analyzes his essay, "The Destruction of the Box" as a way of generating his definition of architecture as it emerged for him. His organic architecture not only emerges as an alternative perspective and method for studying architecture, it emerges as architecture which is social in the deepest sense of that term. That is, the structure is shown to be dependent on the interdependence of all its component parts for its meaning. The definition is dynamic and results from the action displayed by inhabitants.;We come to understand that each instance of architecture is a demonstration of a specific notion of social order and individual. While works may be seen as architecture, not all will be seen as necessarily social. Wright's work is social as well as sociological and as such may be used as a methodological as well as theoretical paradigm for sociological investigations as well as a resource for sociology.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology
