organic architecture

…In 1893, he became independent and opened an office in Oak Park, a western suburb of Chicago. He developed his teacher Sullivan's argument that "form follows function" and rephrased it as "form and function are one," proposing the theory of "organic architecture." In the early 1900s, he created many masterpieces of "Prairie Houses" in the great prairies of the American Midwest, with gentle slopes, deep eaves, and low-lying houses that seem rooted in the earth. …

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…1893年独立してシカゴ西郊オークパークに事務所を開設。師サリバンの〈形態は機能に従う〉との主張を発展させ〈形態と機能は一つである〉といいかえて，〈有機的建築organic architecture〉の理論を提唱した。1900年代初め，アメリカ中西部の大草原に，ゆるいこう配と深い軒をもち，大地に根を張ったように低く広がる〈草原住宅Prairie House〉の傑作を数多く生み出す。…

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