Educational Implications of Applying Dewey's Art as Experience to Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture

• In Event: AERA Virtual Poster Session
  In Virtual Poster Session: SIG-Dewey Studies Virtual Poster Session

Abstract

How does Dewey’s (1934/2005) Art as Experience apply to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie style architecture? This conceptual paper is organized in three sections: (1) Introduction of Dewey and Wright as contemporaries and the literature on Wright’s legacy, (2) applying the philosophy of Dewey’s Art as Experience to Wright’s residential designs, and (3) conclusion with implications of Wright’s architecture as educational experience. Pictures of a selection of Wright’s houses will be used for examples of how Wright’s architectural aesthetic fulfills art-as-experience from the Deweyan perspective and, thus, his residential architecture was itself an applied educational tool that has implications for school design.

Author

• Adam I. Attwood, Austin Peay State University
  Presenting Author