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• Time in the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright Geology, Geography and Geometry of Architecture

  Frans Sturkenboom

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  For a long time Wright’s architecture has been theorized in terms of space. Although space was certainly a key-word in Wright’s discourse, we can neither see it as an objective, three-dimensional space, nor as a more subjective, intimate space. In Wright’s architecture, the third dimension implies time, an axis mundi, a story about the earth as being built. Architecture faces the task to explicate this geological dimension. Geology here not only pertains to the crust of the earth and its...