Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) - Johnson Wax Administration Building, Racine, WI. - Printable Version

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Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) - Johnson Wax Administration Building, Racine, WI. - vijay kasliwal - 08-26-2014

Johnson Wax Administration Building, Racine, WI.1936-39 AD

A totally different, but no less innovative design was the Johnson Wax Administration Building in Racine, Wisconsin. Its magical interior creates a sense of a protected community, an ideal workplace where space is allotted according to egalitarian principles. All curves, the huge interior is one vast work area. A ceiling of glass tubing between circle-topped columns admits diffused light to give a submarine glow to the interior. The form of Wright’s sixty columns (each 30 feet high) has been compared to lily pads or golf trees. Although fanciful, they serve a practical function. The hollow tubes are storm drains.

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