An excerpt from Sarah Susanka's
More Not so Big Solutions for Your Home
“Open plan is a term coined by Frank Lloyd Wright to describe his revolutionary approach to home design. For centuries, houses were made up of boxes (rooms) connected by doorways and hallways. Wright spoke about the “destruction of the box”- eliminating walls on the inside to create spaces that flowed inside and outside to become one continuous, organic space. He suggested that instead of each function in the house being enclosed in its own separate box, rooms could be opened wide to one another, circulation between areas would improve, and spaces would no longer be defined by one term, like “living room” or “dining room.” Spaces would be differentiated from each other with changes in ceiling height, as well as with framed openings and columns, rather than with walls alone (p. 16).”
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