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Stuart Graff Explores Ecosystems and the \u2018Intrinsic Nature\u2019 of the Places Where We Live, Play, Work<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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By Brian R. Hannan*<\/p>\r\n

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Stuart Graff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n

For Stuart Graff, \u201csustainability\u201d is the newest front in understanding Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s concept of organic architecture and its implications for a 21st-century world.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cWe live in a time where, on one hand, we pay a lot of lip service to notions of sustainability,\u201d the president and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation said. \u201cBut what do we revere? We revere buildings that have no connections to the world around them \u2013 at least many people do. Why are we revering those buildings as opposed to the buildings that call attention to themselves because they just become a part of the fabric of a city, a community, a landscape?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cThose are the buildings we should be revering because they are doing the work of nature,\u201d Graff said. \u201cThey are allowing human endeavor to be a part of nature as opposed to being the exception from it.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In April, Arizona-based Graff presented a pair of lectures on sustainability \u2013 one in the Golden Rondelle at the S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. corporate headquarters in Racine and another in the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison. Bringing a mindfulness to how we manage change in a modern society and efficiently use finite natural resources \u201cfits into American values,\u201d he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cYou can go back to the \u2018Declaration of Independence\u2019 and go back even further to John Locke\u2019s enlightenment philosophy in which he explores the idea of laws from nature, which includes concepts like equality and liberty. Then look at the way Ralph Waldo Emerson treated them, speaking of the natural law as this spiritual thing that seems to come out of the land itself,\u201d Graff said. \u201cIt is this thing that just blossoms and flows, and Wright picks up on that throughout his entire life and body of work.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Like Wright before him, Graff acknowledges the challenge of capturing such lofty ideals in common sense language. But through his extensive reading and musing about Wright and transcendental principles, he said, \u201cI keep coming back to this notion of an \u2018ecosystem.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In this construct, Graff defines architecture as \u201csustainable\u201d when its purpose and setting \u2013 its \u201cintrinsic nature\u201d \u2013 are connected to the land on which it is built.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cTrees grow because the nutrients in the soil make sense, when the amount of available water, the amount of light and the surrounding plants, animals and activity all allow it to thrive there,\u201d he said.
\u201cWhy shouldn’t a building be doing the exact same thing and, for that matter, why shouldn’t a city be doing the exact same thing? And a person, their life and their activity be doing the exact same thing?\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Editor\u2019s Note: In July 2018, Graff wrote about sustainability and Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s organic architecture in an article for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation\u2019s blog,\u2008\u201cThe Whirling Arrow.\u201d\u2008The essay is titled \u201cOrganic Architecture and the Sustaining Ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

* Note: <\/strong>Article based on an interview transcript made by Michael Ditmer, president of Wright in Wisconsin.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stuart Graff Explores Ecosystems and the \u2018Intrinsic Nature\u2019 of the Places Where We Live, Play, Work By Brian R. Hannan* For Stuart Graff, \u201csustainability\u201d is the newest front in understanding Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s concept of organic architecture and its implications for a 21st-century world. \u201cWe live in a time where, on one hand, we pay … <\/p>\n

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