Connection Across Time - Chapter 28

Frank Lloyd Wright helped modernize our buildings today by creating buildings that "looked" like the work that the building was meant for. Now I mean "looked" because if the building is supposed to make pencils, you can't exactly build a pencil shaped building because it wouldn't be structurally sound, but he could put like pencil etching on the side of the building or something like that. Wright also helped develop houses that were forms of art, such as Falling Water. Falling Water is a house that has a stream running through the basement of it. He designed houses by using a concept called functionalism. In functionalism, there is no axial symmetry or classical proportions and it also dictates an outward form. If you were to look at some houses today, they contain the same concepts of functionalism.