Frank Lloyd Wright

A detailed Summary of Frank Lloyd Wright


Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. He spent a few semesters in the Engineering School at the University of Wisconsin before leaving for Chicago in 1887. At the age of twenty, he was hired as an apprentice in the office of J. Lyman Silsbee who designed All Souls' Unitarian Church where Wright's uncle was a minister. The young architect's first work was nominally a Silsbee commission-the Hillside Home School built for his aunts in 1888 near Spring Green, Wisconsin.

While construction was underway on the Hillside Home School, Wright went to work for the Chicago firm of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, working as a draftsman on the Auditorium Building, which, at the time of completion in 1890, was the largest building in Chicago. He remained with that firm until 1893(Lind).

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After the age of eighty, Wright was busier than he had ever been, outpacing members of the next two generations. He undertook project all over the world, seldom declining a commission. At the same time, he became a media superstar who divided his time between the spotlight and the drawing board, and he could not give his work the attention it required. Many projects of his last decade have been criticized as vulgar and repetitive, inappropriate for the site, superficially developed, and far removed from the organic architecture that characterized his earlier work. These criticisms notwithstanding, three of Wright's buildings of this decade were designated by the American Institute of Architects to be retained as examples of his architectural contribution to American culture (Summers).

As the decade of the forties began, Frank Lloyd Wright's practice began to grow. In 19

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