Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was a Nature lover and an architect. He reflected on the natural world and applied existing styles to his architecture. He was born in Wisconsin, on June 8, 1867, and died in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 9, 1959, at the age of 91. His architectural career spanned two centuries and lasted for 70 years. During the last year of his life he authored a book and was working on 166 different commissions; when asked about when he would slow down, he replied when the ideas stop coming to him.

Wright Lloyd Wright had designed more than 1140 projects during his lifetime, one-third of them being designed during the last 10 years of his life. More than one-third of his buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or are located in a National Historic District. Wright Lloyd Wright believed that form and function are one, that the building is not just a place to be, but that it is the way to be. During the Great Depression Frank Lloyd Wright received almost no new commissions; it was during this time that he and his wife founded the “Taliesin Fellowship”. This was a program for architect apprentices to experience not only architecture, but also farming, cooking, and nature. At the age of seventy-three, Wright Lloyd Wright staged a great comeback in his career, it was then that he designed the "Fallingwater" house that was built over a waterfall in Mill Run Pennsylvania. The Guggenheim Museum was the last commissione...