Frank Lloyd Wright and the play with geometric abstraction

Abstract

Friedrich Fröbel is known in history as the creator of the Kindergarten, a pedagogical institution established in Germany in 1837 that spread all over the world in fifty years. This educational method was a significant moment in Frank Lloyd Wright’s training and the following essay investigates the learning mode of the American architect and its possible repercussion in his works. The analysis does not focus on the formal similarities that can be found in his design, because these aspects were already investigated by many scholars, but it is based on the traces that the rules of the play have left in the compositional method of the Maestro.

Keywords

• frank lloyd wright
• kindergarten
• fröbel