This paper analyzes the philosophy in “A TESTAMENT” by F.L. Wright on following 3 aspects.
1. Wright tries to open the door to the living whole through creating the living architecture in according to the change of the fate, and Wright gets to the thoughtful philosophy linked to the whole by the quotation of the Hugo’s prophecy to see the architecture revive.
2. The philosophy to the mind of architect guides organic architecture by the image of the poetic principle from ‘the seed’ to ‘the flowers’ in the epigraph. Wright gains the stance of the philosophy through the experience in the nature, Renaissance in Italy, education of Froebel, Emerson' thought and Whitman's poem, and reaches the light of Buddha and Jesus from Laotze.
3. At last Wright's philosophy indicates that the origin of the poetic principle is the eternal law of change: Growth as humanity, the light of world to revive the architecture.
