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A
Work in pairs. Answer the following questions:
1 What would your ideal house be like?
2 Would you like it to be located in an urban environ-
ment, or immersed in a natural environment?
3 What features should there be outside/inside it?
As you speak, make notes of each other’s ideas.
B
Connect to the Internet, look at
the photos of three houses by the
20th-century American architect
F. L. Wright .
1 Do any of them look like your ideal
house?
2 Decide which of the following adjectives
best describe each house, giving reasons:
traditional
spacious
attractive
unconventional
eccentric
ordinary
ostentatious
substantial
airy
economical
horrible
imposing
C
Work in pairs. Read Part 1 about the biography
of F.L. Wright, and then agree on a heading for
paragraphs A-E.
D
Read the text again, and then answer the following
questions:
1 Where did F.L. Wright’s career begin?
2 When did he set up his own firm and what did he design?
3 Focus your attention on the statement “... he opened
the box”? What does it refer to?
4 How did Wright contribute to the solution of low-cost
housing?
5 What is the name an acronym for?
6 What are his greatest examples of his philosophy of
“organic architecture”?
7 What characterised the last years of Wright’s career?
8 Which innovations did Wright introduce into modern
architecture?
E
Read Part 2 and then answer the following questions
1 What did Sullivan state?
2 How did Wright adapt his maxim?
3 Why did he refuse tradition?
4 What was he attracted to?
5 What did he mean by “organic architecture”?
6 What are its guiding principles?
7 Does organic architecture have a fixed style?
8 Which materials did he like best, and how did he use
them?
Frank lloyd
wright
2. Jacobs House, Madison, Wisconsin
1. Robie House, Chicago, Illinois
3. Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania
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