Video Review

     I chose the video "Prairie Style" because I have actually visited one of the Frank Lloyd houses before and wanted to learn more about his general thought process during the creations of all his architectural plans. Towards the end of December 2014, I visited the Martin house complex right here in Buffalo, NY. Here is a picture of my fiance, godparents, and I in front of the complex:

A few key points I learned in this video was that his main focus when planning these houses was to make everything horizontal. The horizontal construct was to purposely make us look around and take in all the natural elements made in our surroundings. This video helps give substance to the article on page 305 on Frank Lloyd Wright and not only explain how he created the houses but showed images of the houses to give viewers an idea of what it meant to build horizontally. Wright helped many other architects get out of that single-minded way of building box-like houses and add more open space for natural light.

     I also chose to watch the video "Last Call For Planet Earth." This video was all about sustainable development and the awareness of our planet's global warming problems. They talked about how us as humans seem to forget that this planet does not have eternal supply and we are very limited on resources; however, we consume double the amount we should and don't giveback to our planet. Architects are finding several ways of using renewable resources and energy when creating their structures. I chose this video because I recently read the story "The Lorax" to my pre-k children and it reminded me of the morals and values we should be teaching our younger generations about taking care of our planet while evolving and finding new ways of inventing without leaving a huge footprint in our planet.