Fractal geometry in the late work of frank lloyd wright: The palmer house

Abstract

That Nature was Frank Lloyd Wright’s deity’s contact with the geometric forms of the Vienna Secession. Referring to Wright’s use of the rectilinear grid, Narciso Menocal writes that it was contingent on his conception of the universe as a geometric entity that architecture mirrors. Whether or not Wright was aware of such concepts as the Golden Mean and the Fibonacci series is a moot point. Wright used nature as the basis of his geometrical abstraction. His objective was to conventionalize the geometry which he found in Nature, and his method was to adopt the abstract simplification which he found so well expressed in the Japanese print. Therefore, it is not too shocking perhaps that in this quest his work should foreshadow the new mathematics of nature first put forth by Benoit Mandelbrot: fractal geometry.