Ben Purkert: On Organic Architecture, and How to Locally Source Metaphors (July 2025)

Whenever possible, Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings using materials native to their respective environment. He believed in a kind of architecture “from within outward,” one that valued integration with the natural world. When we build our poems, our sentences, our literary worlds, where do we source our materials? Do metaphors swirl in the air around us, for example, or must we set out looking for them? Together, we’ll consider the imagination as a means of foraging, and where to find the creative imagery that will nourish us and our readers alike.