EXP 3: MASHUP

An architect takes on what others have left subsequent generations. The relation between the parts to the whole were characteristic to him, every part has to have its own identity but at the same time be inexorably chained to the whole. That abstract saying form and function are one is the center line of architecture, organic. It places us in line with nature and enables us sensibly to go to work. We are shifting in what we live now; we don't really live in it.A useful point of departure is to disentangle it, if only momentarily, from the word organic. This analogy between nature and architecture already occurred in works of the artist Horatio Greenough in the middle of the 19th century. Perhaps in realizing this, in later writings Wright occasionally punctuated the relationship between organic architecture and nature, emphasizing that they are inseparable. We don't really understand what it is to live in an organic building with organic character. A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings. Any building which is built should love the ground on which it stands. Wright sees every building as something special, related to the location where it stands and as part of the landscape, nature. Wright always thought that we should live with some connection to nature – he said that it was more humane, that it was, in fact, in our nature.