SAMARA EDUCATION SERIES
Spring 2001
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Use of
Building Materials
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Original Materials
Wally Rogers
Interpreter
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Kindergarten
Soon, Frank Lloyd Wright would be engaged in playing, singing and dancing. In focused concentration seated at a low long table with orthogonal gridded work surfaces, he created geometric designs using small blocks of wood, colored paper, thread, wire and clay.
Taken literally, Kindergarten means children's garden. In open gardens planted with vegetables, herbs and young trees, nature shows off through fruit, leaves, pods, seeds and flowers, its patterns of growth and development, not unlike those Froebel discovered among crystals in the drawers and display cases of museums.
On grid-lined tables, children searched and experimented with twenty materials using solids, planes, lines, and points to investigate nature's patterns and designs. Abstraction was the key to discovering the essence of life within three realms of a child's garden, with Froebel's learning exercises focused on life (nature forms), science (knowledge forms), and art (beauty forms).
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Latest revision on June 9, 2001
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