Architecture Meets Science

Johnson Wax Administration Building and Research Tower

Frank Lloyd Wright -1939

One of the Initial new utopian ideal for progressive communities (unity temple) this building was designed during the great depression for the company HC Jonson and Sons inc The building also greatly emphasized the elements of collaboration and research as an enthusiastic approach to research laboratory spaces. The research laboratory was an essential response to post-war development ideals. The administrative building was developed on the concepts of integrating organic, garden and well-lit spaces giving an illusion of plantation of tree-like columns within a walled garden. The research being a symbol of progression in tech and research, it was visioned to be within a tower going up in the air. A concept of transparency was envisioned through the inner skin of the tower glazing and the outer leaf of glass. Overall the building implies one of the key significant interests for spaces that focus on the elements of community, science and research.