ArhiKen / Kendrick Bangs Kellogg

Kao student na Univerzitetu u Koloradu u 1950.-toj godini , Kellogg se našao ispred fotografije Rajt-ovog remek dela, stambenog objekta pod nazivom, Fallingwater .Trenutak za koji kaže da je tada " postao svestan arhitekture koja je predstavljala kompliment prirodnog sveta , i koja nastaje u harmoniji sa njim. Ubrzo nakon toga Kellogg prisustvuje Rajtovom predevanju u Taliesin Zapad institutu njegovom kampusu u Skotsdejlu u Arizoni.

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As a student at the University of Colorado in the 1950s, Kellogg happened upon a photo of Wright's 1937 residential masterpiece, Fallingwater. And only at that moment he “ become aware of architecture that was a compliment to the natural world, in harmony with it.” Soon afterward Kellogg attended a lecture by Wright at the famed architect's Taliesin West institute in Scottsdale, Arizona.

It was the career impetus he needed .

"Ne postoje pravila u organskoj arhitekturi ,ona razvija uvek novi stil svaki put kada je pokrenete ", kaže Kellogg , i dodao je da veruje da će i u High Desert kući, baš kao i u Rajtovoj Fallingvater , jednog dana biti u funkciji objekta koji predstavlja javnu arhitektonsku izložbu ili možda čak i novi centar za doček u Joshua Tree nacionalnom parku . " To je reinterpretacija principa prirode da stvori obrasce u skladu sa pejzažom , a ne na njima "

“There are no rules in organic architecture--it develops a new style every time you employ it,” says Kellogg, adding that he believes the High Desert Home, like Wright's Fallingwater, one day will serve as a public architectural exhibit and perhaps even a new welcoming center for Joshua Tree National Park. “It is the reinterpretation of nature's principles to create forms in harmony with the landscape, rather than on top of it.”

Južno od US autoputa 62 , u žbunastom delu koji se graniči sa Joshua Tree National Park , na okruglom brežuljku od sunca - pečena gromada raste sto fita u visinu. Na suprotnom krilu , zaklonjena od asfaltne spiralne civilizacije suočena sa živom formacijom stena u parku , polu - konkavna struktura slojevitog betona čuči kao u zasedi u velikoj meri kamuflirana među stenama . Da je to nečiji dom je izgleda manje značajne od toga što je ta struktura u stvari smeštena u tom ambijentu . Očigledno sa promišljenim intelektualnim pristupom u dizajnu , izgleda da se radi o formi koja je evoluirala, ili možda se srušila u ambijent , u kojem se uspostavlja kao sloj natprirodne elegancije ... ili možda pršljenova kao ostataka praistorijske zveri . To je , bukvalno i simbolički , vrhunac organske arhitekture . I to je zamisao jednog i jedinstvenog Kendrick Bangs Kellogg-a .


South of US Highway 62, in the scrublands bordering Joshua Tree National Park, a knoll of sun-baked boulders rises a hundred feet high. On its opposite flank, shielded from the asphalt tendril of civilization and facing the sentient rock formations of the park, a semi-concave structure of layered concrete crouches largely camouflaged among the boulders, as if in wait. That this is someone's home seems less significant than that it is actually there. Obviously intelligent in design, it also appears to have evolved from, or perhaps collapsed into, its setting--an outcropping of preternatural elegance… or the vertebral remnants of a prehistoric beast. It is, literally and symbolically, the pinnacle of organic architecture. And it is the brainchild of one Kendrick Bangs Kellogg.

Koncept za High Desert kuću, kako Kellogg naziva njegovu kreaciju sa ironičnom neplodnošću , inspirisana je delima i rečima Frenk Lojda Rajta " Dakle, ovde stojim pred vama ... proglašavajući organsku arhitekturu kao moderan ideal ", rekao je Rajt u 1939. " ( To je ) nastava koja je toliko potrebna ako želimo da vidimo ceo život , u službi celoga života , držeći se toga da nema tradicije bitne za velike tradicije ". Ova velika deklaracija - bila je odskočna daska za arhitektonski pokret utemeljen na obrascima i materijalima koji su svojstveni u prirodnom svetu - okrenut je ka ideji da priroda ne može uraditi ništa loše . Rajt-ov postulat : " Sa organskom arhitekturom , odnosno arhitekturom na osnovu organskih ideala , loš dizajn bio bi nezamisliv .



The concept for the High Desert Home, as Kellogg calls his creation with ironic aridity, was inspired by the works and words of Frank Lloyd Wright. “So here I stand before you… declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal,” said Wright in 1939. “(It is) the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION.” This grand declaration--the springboard for an architectural movement founded on patterns and materials inherent in the natural world--turned on the notion that nature could do no wrong. Postulated Wright: “(In) an organic architecture, that is to say an architecture based upon organic ideals, bad design would be unthinkable.”

Blistavi enterijer muzejskog - kvaliteta ,sa unutrašnjom stolarijom i metalnim fiksacijama u domu su izrađeni prema dizajnu izvođača John-a Voggeren-a, i u velikom delu su zamišljena i izradjena na licu mesta . Vrata , kvake , sudopere i toaleti postali su umetnički predmeti oblikovani i formirani da se uklope sa temom dizajna njihovog okruženja . " Džon je precizan , apsolutni umetnik , ali sam ga odveo do njegovog limita na ovom poslu ", kaže Kellogg . " Većina ljudi ne bi išla u pravcu u kojem smo išli , ali vlasnici ove kuće gotovo nas nikada u tome nisu zaustavili . "

The home's startling, museum-quality interior woodwork and metal fixtures were crafted by artist and metalworker John Voggeren, with much of it conceived and fabricated on-site. Doors, latches, sinks and toilets became objets d'art in their own right, sculpted and formed to carry the theme of their given environment. “John is precise, an absolute artist, but I took him to his limit on this one,” says Kellogg. “Most people wouldn't have gone in the way-out directions we went, but the owners almost never stopped us.”

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