What is Organic Architecture?

Organic architecture...

…is a term first coined by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908 that aims to prescribe a timeless set of design principles, rather than a particular style.

…is not, contrary to what the internet may say, architecture in the shape of fish or mutant vegetables.

…seeks to understand the forces that shape the natural world and apply them to architectural design.

…respects the nature of materials. 

…fits its place and time. 

...aims to "destroy the box", as FLW phrased it, allowing space within to flow freely.

…is driven by simple human needs: material and spiritual.

… borrows from the past when appropriate, not to replicate, but to reformulate.

...does not necessarily demand green strategies or the use of natural materials, although it may.

...takes inspiration from fractal geometry and what it reveals about nature's patterns.

...gains insights from evolutionary psychology as it designs in accordance with human nature.

...rejects artificial philosophical constructs like postmodernism and deconstructivism and their associated architectural movements, along with the contrivance coming from the self-proclaimed successor to these: parametricism.

…begins as an engineering endeavor, synthesizing all that we do know, then proceeds as a poetic endeavor, imagining what we don’t know. 

…sets the pursuit of Beauty as its highest goal.