Geometry of Frank Lloyd Wright

Photo by Kelly Rausch

Photo by Kelly Rausch

Photo by Lisa E White

Photo by Lisa E White

Frank Lloyd Wright's designs used many sharp angles and geometric shapes which bring a unity to his work to Scottsdale's Taliesin West.  He grew up playing with maple wooden building blocks by a German named Froebel which influenced his later work.  Frank believed geometric shapes had a cosmic meaning and connected man to the environment.  He said, "That early kindergarten experience with the straight line; the flat plane; the square; the triangle; the circle! If I wanted more, the square modified by the triangle gave the hexagon, the circle modified by the straight line would give the octagon. Adding thickness, getting 'sculpture' thereby, the square became the cube, the triangle the tetrahedron, the circle the sphere."