- Title
- Prospect-refuge patterns in Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses: using isovist fields to examine the evidence
- Creator
- Ostwald, Michael J.; Dawes, Michael
- Relation
- Journal of Space Syntax Vol. 4, Issue 1, p. 136-159
- Relation
- http://joss.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/journal/index.php/joss/article/view/145
- Publisher
- University College London
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- It has been argued that the domestic works of Frank Lloyd Wright possess an innate phenomenological appeal that is a direct result of a particular spatial and visual pattern in Wright's architecture. This argument, which is central to several architectural variants of prospect-refuge theory, suggests that a distinct spatio-visual system exists which directly shapes the way people move through and experience Wright's architecture. This paper uses a computational technique, isovist field analysis, to search for prospect-refuge related spatio-visual patterns in paths through five of Frank Lloyd Wright's canonical Prairie houses. The paper concludes that there is no clear evidence in these particular cases of the suggested pattern.
- Subject
- isovist analysis; visbility graph analysis; spatial perception; prospect-refuge theory; Frank Lloyd Wright
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316624
- Identifier
- uon:23225
- Identifier
- ISSN:2044-7507
- Language
- eng
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