Around the 1900's a number of architects around the world began developing new architectural solutions to integrate traditional precedents with new technological possibilities. The work of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow and Le Corbusier in France can be seen as a common struggle between old and new.
In this essay I am going to concentrate on the theory, design and practice of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. I think it is interesting to consider the work of two extremely influential architects working in completely different parts of the world.
Believing that “the space within that building is the reality of that building”, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was one of the most prolific and influential architects of the twentieth century. From his early Prairie Style homes, to the sculptural curves of the Guggenheim Museum in New York he defined a North American style of architecture......
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