Prospect-refuge patterns in Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses: using isovist fields to examine the evidence

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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