outside his Oak Park studio and again, later, in the
sconces at the Robie House (1909) in Hyde Park.
A square enclosing a circle intersected by a cross.
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Sunday, March 08, 2009
pattern language
outside his Oak Park studio and again, later, in the
sconces at the Robie House (1909) in Hyde Park.
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I'm a novice - what does this mean? Is there a certain significance to these forms as they are together? Or did he just think it looked nice?
my goodness -- you certainly had quite a weekend! well spent.
not in an esoteric masonic way or anything ;) -- FLW's architecture is saturated with explicit geometries -- I can't cite Wright on the mark that he made for himself, but I suspect it had something to do with the fundamental strength of these simple forms -- the circle, the square and the cross hairs -- that appealed to him.
his hallmark urn is a volumetric expression of these same three »
If you hadn't identified it as FLW's mark, I would have understandably assumed that this was a form of the sun cross or sun wheel, which has been found in marks dating well back into prehistory.
super cool.
I don't doubt that FLW was familiar with the sun cross.
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