Frank

Frank Lloyd Wright was a very popular American artist, but not your typical artist. He was very famous in not only his art pieces and sculpting, but also his architecture. He designed more than 1,000 art pieces in his life, and created 536 of them. He’s built houses, beautiful houses, each with their own stories. He had amazing ideas, ones that incorporated the perception of your eyes, the dramatic change from dark to light, big to small, and all these ideas that turned into something bigger and better.
Frank Lincoln Wright was born on June 8th, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin to his parents (at the time) William Carey Wright and Anna Lloyd Jones. He grew up in a still influenced America by Jefferson’s idea of an agrarian society, though he always had a deep love for nature. This feeling he had for the land and his belief in the need for a direct relationship with nature were essential to his concept of "organic architecture".
When Frank’s mother Anna was expecting him, she went to a Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and ran into an exhibit of educational wooden blocks created by Friedrich Wilhelm August Frobel. These blocks were called “Froebel Gifts”, and were the foundation of his innovative kindergarten curriculum, where the child would spend much time playing this these, experimenting with ideas, would nurture the idea of architecture, in which Frank’s mother had dreamed of her son being even before she knew she was having a child.
When Frank was 14 years old, his parents separated, and Frank claimed to never see his father again after that. After this happened, Frank decided to change his middle name to Lloyd in honor of his mothers’ family, being the only male left in the family.
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...ration. So when they say the house is “all Frank”, they mean it literally. Every piece of the home was thought out and picked, designed, and created by frank.
Overall, Frank was a very smart, intellectual artist, and he was very thorough with his pieces and buildings. There are websites all over the internet about him, his work, what he did, and people that are inspired and are architects because of him.
There was an architect I found named Michael Rust, whose designs are very inspired by Franks work. He uses a lot of wood and angular/modern shapes and pieces in his buildings.

Frank has inspired many people around the world. It took me till now to actually know who he was, because I’ve heard his name, but never knew him. Turns out, he built the clubhouse at the King Kamehameha gold course on Maui. So he’s really all around us, and it’s kind of scary.