Text Mining

After being unable to simply embed my wordle due to JSTOR’s incompatible interface and encountering the similar problem of being unable to simply share the Ngram I created with my final project’s website, I have gone through the tedious steps to screenshot both of these visuals, crop them, add a nice frame to them because why not, post them onto some image hosting site, and then properly code them as image hyperlinks so that they may be both viewed on my website, but also expanded.  The wordle I created was derived from the article Wright’s Small Rectangular Houses: His Structure of the Forties and Fifties by Bernard Pyron in the Art Journal publication.  This particular article details not just Wright’s career, but specifically his desire to design homes for middle class Americans and the stylistic and structural elements found in these highly efficient, more affordable designer homes.

The second text mining application is an Ngram of words coined by Wright during his career to describe some of the more dominant innovations found specifically in the Usonian homes.  What it shows is that with the exception of ‘Organic Architecture,” his aesthetic philosophy, these terms represent significant contributions to modern architecture and can still be found in houses today despite a period of severe economic downturn.