Organic Modern Architecture

Organic Modern Architecture is a collection of essays on contemporary architecture, design, and related topics such as culture, nature, and art. Organic Architecture is qualified, functionally indigenous architecture legitimately born of American Democracy. This book, written by an architect, describes the history of American Modern Architecture from its roots in the Chicago Prairie School of Frank Lloyd Wright to today's Sustainable Architecture, and its potential impact on society,...
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Organic Modern Architecture is a collection of essays on contemporary architecture, design, and related topics such as culture, nature, and art. Organic Architecture is qualified, functionally indigenous architecture legitimately born of American Democracy. This book, written by an architect, describes the history of American Modern Architecture from its roots in the Chicago Prairie School of Frank Lloyd Wright to today's Sustainable Architecture, and its potential impact on society, its significance in today's relativistic worldview, and its critical mission to unite architecture with critical realities of rampant resource depletion and climate change. Modern Organic Architecture is a call for architects to return to an architecture of principle rather than a contemporary design process based on academic precedence and subjective proclivities.The book criticizes our current educational system and professional associations for exacerbating a non-responsive architectural profession, centered on architects rather that architecture. The book targets student architects and those young architects searching for relevant design philosophy in today's complex world, one based on genuine cultural meaning and significance to place, a contemplative architecture due empathic and humane consideration. The author provides examples of Modern Organic design principles applied to modern residence and ecclesiastical building design. The book is approximately 150 pages and provides images and illustrations supporting the text. David Howard Ghezzi is a practicing architect licensed in Virginia and Florida, he holds a Masters in Architecture and a Bachelors in Construction Managerment from Florida International University. He is currently staff architect at municipality in the mid-Atlantic region.