Once again, Paul Laseau and James Tice, authors of “Frank Lloyd Wright, Between Principle and Form” reveal an element of Frank Lloyd Wright’s fractal intuition. A fractal pattern called an “Apollonian Net” or “Apollonian Gasket” is composed of a triplet of circles, each of which is tangent to the others. A complete description can be found at Wolfram MathWorld. This is not as common as other fractals, but it still represents self-similarity of scale. The three circles do not necessarily have to be within another circle, as the MathWorld entry shows.   The image below is from Paul Laseau’s and James Tice’s book,…

Any examination of Frank Lloyd Wright’s homes leaves one with a feeling of transcendence. Wright’s strong, linear shapes and geometries imply a sense of order and artificiality. Yet these shapes evoke something deeper, something within nature. Wright himself said that he was freed from the box. While simply breaking free from the basic box-like construction of a building does add a naturalness, to me it doesn’t finish the picture. There has always been something unique with his designs, and I believe he used his intuition to imitate the fractal nature of the world. Cruciform, Weave and Additive Paul Laseau and James…