Book: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT ON ARCHITECTURE, SELECTED WRITINGS (1894-1940)

Editor: FREDERICK GUTHEIM

Publisher: DUELL, SLOAN & PEARGE, INC.
Published year: 1941
Chapter: 1938-1940: Education and the Issues.
Article: 1939, Organic Architecture- The Method (pg. 249-251).

Introduction: There is no very great difficulty in creating an organism, and entity,

in the way of a building in which all needed services are incorporated features
of the building. But that type of building, call it creation, cannot be under any
"specialistic" system. Such creation must occur by single-minded mastery on the
part of the creator of the building, that is, if we mean organic building. We
cannot in organic building have a group of specialists," we have to relegate the
expert to the backyard of the building, or to oblivion.

Summary: Relationship between architect and client is depends upon the

mutual understanding between those two, faith and ability of an architect to do
buildings.
All that is possible now in the buildings you do build in your city, is a kind of merciful
mitigation.
I think, our educational system and the thing we ought to call culture are not
even on speaking terms with each other. Learning by Doing.
Education, unfortunately for us in dire need, has produced only those who can
do things by patterned precept; by election and selection, rather than by any
creative impulse or instinct guided by tested principle whatsoever.

Aim: Purpose is to elaborate the method of organic architecture, as a thinking

process which can only be learn by doing and understanding basic principles
not by the composing the old ideas into new forms every time.

Keywords: Codes of the democracies, Learning by Doing, fundamental

principle.