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
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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Frank Lloyd Wright created
the Guggenheim Museum
as a series of organic
shapes. Circular forms
spiral down 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.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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