Eric Lloyd Wright

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ERIC LLOYD WRIGHT
How does the Marin County Civic Center embody Mr. Wright’s concept of organic architecture?

Detail of the completed Civic Center I think he was using the nature of concrete very beautifully in the curved forms. Concrete is a wonderful, plastic material, and you can mold it and shape it. And I think that that’s one of the beauties of the Marin County Civic Center: the use of the concrete. I think another very interesting thing he did was to open up the whole center of the building with this continuous skylight, to let light in, all the way down, through all of the floors, and to have the bottom, the main floor garden, grow up through it. He was bringing the outside elements inside the building.