Light Art Series | Frank Lloyd Wright's Westcott House in Ohio

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"More and more, so it seems to me that light is the beautifier of the building"
-Frank Lloyd Wright
There is no denying that Frank Lloyd Wright not only understood light, he studied it. Having professional photographed both the interior and exterior over 100 Wright designs around the country for my project, I am constantly studying not only light but the ways in which Wright used it. Sometimes purposely and sometimes, what seems accidental, although I don't always think it is, Wright incorporates year, season, day, hour, minute and even seconds into a space. He introduces the passage of time into this designs.
This Light Art series will show off some of Wright's finest examples of light and some of those not so accidental moments I have been blessed to witness as a photographer.
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@JayYoung-ro3vu 11 месяцев назад

We're proud of the Mr. Wright's Wescott House, the volunteers and professionals who are restoring it, and the communities that came together to save the home from destruction. The casual visitor would not have paid attention to the everchanging light patterns. Thank you for documenting it. 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏

@AndrewPielage 11 месяцев назад

Of course. What a beautiful design and Marta and Team are doing a wonderful job over there. As a photographer, I am always looking for the beautiful light. It was a gift from Wright.

@lot2196 11 месяцев назад

I've visited there. We'll done.

@JayYoung-ro3vu 11 месяцев назад

@@lot2196 Where from did you arrive?

@AD-bx2xo Год назад

There’s an early article written by Wright, back when he still had the patience to indulge the laymen’s curiosity on the meaning his work, breaking down and detailing out how he let different materials played with light. He laid out possible arrangements of glass windows, and for instance for a certain house he would pay attention to the ideal ratio of the beauty of the tint when looking outwards at the autumn trees compared to the mystifying reflection that the interior glass surface would receive from another window and how that light would cast on the adjacent oak ceiling, and zeroing in on the most optimal combination that would generate the most awe rather than pedantically pursuing a combination that checked the most amount of conceptual boxes. So he knew what he was doing certainly enough to articulate it verbally.

@AndrewPielage Год назад

Yes indeed. That’s awesome. I don’t think I’ve come across that article. Do you remember title and what book you read it in? Especially interested because Wright talks about “light”

@nickdannunzio7683 11 месяцев назад

I also noticed that at Taliesin West he used shadows of the exterior (let's call it a single) pergola to cast shadows against the stone side walls, knowing it would be reflected back off the glass causing the appearance of bilateral seminary due to the mirror image... the light result of the interior living space (I'll call it a greenhouse as it is mostly glass) is amazing... and he followed Bonnie Riatt's lyrics of infamous song and always seems to, "Give them something to talk about" like the weird steer looking artwork at the peak of one of the (many) dormers... and the crystal shaped canoe skylight... Amazing...

@AndrewPielage 11 месяцев назад

Having photographed Taliesin West consistently for over 10 years now, Its easy for me to say that TW has the most incredible light and shadow play out of all of the 129 Wright sites I have photographed. its memorizing.

@stephenritchings8135 2 года назад

There's always a tendency to impute intention to even the most intangible and virtually unpredictable architectural events. Isn't it enough that the designer sets up the possibilities for such events, without in fact predicting the particular phenomena we have discovered ? As a designer, I think I can say that Mr Wright didn't design his "light screens" to cast shadows and make reflections on walls, but rather to act as built-in curtains providing at least the sense of occlusion and semi-privacy that conventional window treatments do in other houses. Light certainly does reveal the beauties of architecture---and of sculpture and painting too---as others have noted. Like a playwright or a composer, the architect creates the circumstances which may result in unexpected, unanticipated delights---but he doesn't choreograph each passing moment of the dance. Their occurrence is left to be captured by artists like photographer Pielage.

@AndrewPielage 2 года назад

Thanks for your thoughts Stephen. Yes, his light screens were designed for privacy but that's not the only reason... and maybe not the most important, especially in this conversation. He only did light screens/stained glass in the designs he built in urban landscapes, where the natural world is not seen clearly through the windows. They were built into the design to bring some form of nature inside (or outside) the design. Bringing the natural world even further into his designs with light and shadows to connect us not only with natural world but the time of day. So is it a stretch to say he thought about the placement and what these colors and shapes would look like when direct sunlight shines through them? He most certainly thought about window placement. Maybe they are just happy coincidences? But photographing and spending time in over 100 Wright designs, these coincidences happen all too often and seem to be more thought out than accidents or "unexpected, unanticipated delights". Either way they are delights indeed =)

@EleyReiHer 8 месяцев назад

He paid close attentions to the light and shadow plays. These circulations on the floorplan is something to die for, as well. You captured it beautifully. His house might not be grandeur in scale, but remains contemporary and cute if that makes any sense

@AndrewPielage 7 месяцев назад

Thank you so much. Yes, it was a lucky find and I totally agree with you. It's a great little cute design. I really love the front entrance way inside.

@EleyReiHer 7 месяцев назад

@@AndrewPielage Lucky! Your overview is on spot! Do you think there are chances to see other residential building laying nearby? He seems designing a lot on his illustrious life

@AndrewPielage 6 месяцев назад

I hope to. have you seen others in Ohio?@@EleyReiHer

@EleyReiHer 6 месяцев назад

@@AndrewPielage I've never been to any of his building in Northern America. I've seen one in Japan trip. Thank you for info 👍 Thus, I'm not quite sure about Ohio. I read somewhere that there are handful some in Indiana. Well you can visit if it is close by, that's fersure

@mirakarchitect7945 Год назад

Beautiful, nice work sir.🔥❤🙌🏽 I think he does. There's a point in creativity or creative thinking process where the Artist or Architect becomes so intimate with details in Nature and building so much that he tells in his design the expected experience of the users. He's been there already and the idea is built-in. But one thing with Nature and the passing of time is that these experiences -including the lighting becomes more interesting and dynamic beyond the Artist's expectations, its renewed every day all because the principle was activated at first.

@AndrewPielage Год назад

And Wright does it so often, that's the most incredible part.