Frank Lloyd Wright June 8 1867 April 9

Frank Lloyd Wright June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959

Frank Lloyd Wright ► Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator.

Frank Lloyd Wright promoted organic architecture ► Fallingwater, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania. ► The house was built partly over a waterfall in Bear Run at Rural Route 1 in the Mill Run section of Pennsylvania. ► Hailed by TIME magazine shortly after its completion as Wright's "most beautiful job, " the home inspired Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead, and is listed among Smithsonian magazine's Life List of 28 places "to visit before. . . it's too late. " ►

Frank Lloyd Wright ► The Robie House is one of the best known examples of Prairie Style architecture. The term was coined by architectural critics and historians (not by Wright) who noticed how the buildings and their various components (e. g. doors, windows, furniture, tapestries, etc. ) owed their design influence to the landscape and plant life of the midwest prairie of the United States.

Frank Lloyd Wright ► Prairie houses were characterized by low, horizontal lines that were meant to blend with the flat landscape around them. Typically, these structures were built around a central chimney, consisted of broad open spaces instead of strictly defined rooms, and deliberately blurred the distinction between interior space and the surrounding terrain.

Frank Lloyd Wright ► Hollyhock House is Wright's first Los Angeles project. Built between 1919 and 1921, it represents his earliest efforts to develop a regionally appropriate style of architecture for Southern California. Wright himself referred to it as California Romanza, using a musical term meaning "freedom to make one's own form". Taking advantage of Los Angeles' dry, temperate climate, Hollyhock House is a remarkable combination of house and gardens. In addition to the central garden court, each major interior space adjoins an equivalent exterior space, connected either by glass doors, a porch, pergola or colonnade. A series of rooftop terraces further extend the living space and provide magnificent views of the Los Angeles basin and the Hollywood Hills.

Frank Lloyd Wright ► Frank Lloyd Wright created the Guggenheim Museum as a series of organic shapes. Circular forms spiral down like the interior of a shell. Visitors to the museum begin on the upper level and follow a sloping ramp downward through connected exhibition spaces. At the core, an open rotunda offers views of artwork on several levels.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright