Frank Lloyd Wright
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- "All-Wright Site" is an Amazon
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and features links to Frank Lloyd Wright-related books.
- Most of the links were updated during December of 1999.
- This site has been online for close to four years. Many thanks to Yahoo GeoCities for making this service available to the Internet community.
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Featured book:
"Prairie Style: Houses and Gardens by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School"
by Dixie Legler and Christian Korab.
Features sections on 24 homes by Frank Lloyd Wright and other Prairie school architects. Contains nice large photographs of many homes rarely seen in publications. Click here to go order this book from Amazon.com
Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?
Frank Lloyd Wright at a Glance
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright) lived from 1867 to 1959. During most of these years, from 1885 to 1959, he was a prolific architect, with close to 500 of his designs built (and hundreds more remaining unbuilt) - a career lasting three quarters of a century, and unequaled in output. Mr. Wright worked for architects J. Lyman Silsbee and Louis Sullivan, and he later himself trained many architects at his Taliesin School. Frank Lloyd Wright expoused "organic architecture" and is responsible for the Prairie and Usonian residential styles. Mr. Wright was born in Wisconsin, and he lived most of his life there, also spending some time living in New York City, Germany, Japan, Oak Park (Illinois), and the winter location of his school in Arizona. Mr. Wright had three wives and several children. The third wife, Olgivanna Wright ran the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture until her death in 1985. For a more in-depth look at Wright's life, please see the biography page.
Why is Frank Lloyd Wright important?
Do you have a living room in your house? or a carport? Does your house have an "open" floor plan? If so, then the way you live is being directly influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's innovations in residential architecture. "Drawing inspiration from his native midwestern prairie, he coaxed Americans out of their boxlike houses and into wide-open living spaces that suited the American lifestyle" (Carla Lind, The Wright Style) Mr. Wright's "organic architecture" was a radical departure from the traditional architecture of his day, which was dominated by European styles that dated back hundreds of years or even millenia. He contributed the Prairie and Usonian houses to the vernacular of American residential design, and elements of his designs can be found (at least to some small degree) in a large proportion of homes today. While most of his designs were single-family homes (ranging from small homes for families of modest incomes, to mansions like his unbuilt design for Henry Ford), his varied output also includes houses of worship, skyscrapers, resorts, museums, government offices, gas stations, bridges, and other masterpieces showing the diversity of Frank Lloyd Wright's talent.Frank Lloyd Wright's views on architectural space, ornamentation, and relationship to site, and concerning the place of architecture in art, life and philosophy have inspired generations of architects and artists all over the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright's career was notable in several areas:
- Practicing Architect. He designed several hundred buildings, of which around 500 were built
- Architectural Theoretician/Academic. He wrote several books on architecture, and founded and ran a successful school in the field, training many architects.
- Artist (Draftsman). His drawings of his buildings and other plans were beautiful and notable in themselves. The L.A.Times said he was a "productive artist whose imagination continued to outpace even his long lifetime of work".
- Interior Design and Furniture. Mr. Wright's design went
beyond the building to the finest details of the interior space,
including furniture, art glass, and other aspects of interior design.
Frank Lloyd Wright's views on architectural space, ornamentation, and relationship to site, and concerning the place of architecture in art, life and philosophy have inspired generations of architects and artists all over the world. Explore "All-Wright Site" (and the other sites linked from it) to find out about different aspects of the life and work of a man considered by many to be the greatest architect who ever lived
Architecture is that great living creative spirit which from generation to generation, from age to age, proceeds, persists, creates, according to the nature of man, and his circumstances as they change. That is architecture - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1937
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