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Article Evaluation
A brief evaluation of the wikipedia article page, Organic architecture.

Content
The article begins with a definition about what organic architecture is in a short paragraph that doesn't go into much detail. This is followed by an identification of the person who coined the term "organic architecture", Frank Llyod Wright, followed by a quote longer than the description in the header having to do with what organic architecture is. This organization and brief description could be improved with additional content by elaborating in depth on organic architecture and what it is and where you can find examples. The article continued on from here much stronger than its start, presenting a criteria to distinguish organic architecture from non organic architecture and a more in depth description of what organic architecture is. This made the rest of the article flow much better and did not have anything distracting or overly brief, making the article as a whole a good, informative read.

Tone
Overall, the article came across neutral, incorporating a few people's views on what organic architecture is and approaching the subject without bias. However, the majority of the article did seem to focus on Frank Lloyd Wright's work, and relatively vague quote about organic architecture. With this in mind, additional content including other organic architecture examples, quotes, and maybe an evolution of the organic architecture idea towards modern approaches would help steer the article away from the being Frank Lloyd Wright and His Organic Architecture.

Talk Page
The talk page included a long entry questioning the inclusion of some of the information provided in the article.

Article Selection
A few options for articles I would like to help build for this assignment.

Japanese Buddhist architecture

Matsumoto Castle

Château Frontenac

Bran Castle

History
In the 1870's, a restoration project began in Quebec under the British governor general of Canada aimed at restoring the capital to its former 17th century look. One of the contributors to this project was Lord Dufferin, who supervised the construction of the old city wall and many public buildings that followed the theme of old, medieval, European Quebec. Dufferin also made a plan to reconstruct the Chateau Saint-Louis which was located on the cliff where the Chateau Frontenac currently stands and served as the home of the French governors from 1620 to 1834. Dufferin's plan did not take off until the City Council and the Board of Trade adopted the idea and planned to instead construct a grand hotel on the site to attract upper-class tourism to the area, but after failing to finance its construction, businessmen from Toronto and Montreal with connections to the Canadian Pacific Railway took control of the project. Bruce Price, an American architect with Romanesque, Medieval influences who had previously designed the Windsor Railway Station in Montreal, was hired to design the Chateau, and in May 1892 they broke ground for the hotel's construction.

The completion of the Chateau Frontenac inspired the construction of a string of chateauesque railway hotels throughout the country. These hotels brought a sense of nationalism to the population and continued under the Canadian Pacific Railway until 1908 when the Grand Trunk Railway continued the theme with the construction of their first railway hotel The Chateau Laurier Hotel.