His varied architectural style is generally unified via underlying principles related to change and innovation which are reflected in his structures, all bearing a sense of unity, privacy and a free expression of interior space. Wright also designed and created furniture, art glass, lighting fixtures, table linens, carpets and garages. But most important, Wright always experimented with form and materials, aided by technology, which helped him to create structures that encompassed many artistic movements developed in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

Born in Richland Center, Wisconsin on June 8, 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright's early childhood was marked by t

he desertion of his father when Wright was only sixteen years old. Amazingly, his mother, a strong yet compassionate woman, had decided long before her son was born that he would be an architect, and when Wright was a small child, his mother provided simple wood blocks, paper and other materials which he would "arrange, with her assistance, into shapes resembling rudimentary furniture and buildings. According to Wright himself, these early experiences with his mother "left their mark on my mind and greatly affected my future work as an architect" ( Twombly, 45).

In 1928, a series of personal misfortunes came into Wright's life, one being declaring bankruptcy in which all of his possessions were sold. However, he did manage to design a number of buildings during the Great Depression, but unfortunately, none of them were ever constructed. In 1932, Wright founded the Taliesin Fellowship, "a combination of architectural education and apprenticeships wherein the students who admired Wright's work learned much from him and never managed to overcome his influence upon them in their later professions as architects" (Twombly, 156).

In 1893, Wright left the firm of Adler and Sullivan and began his own firm, first in Chicago and then in Oak Park. During this time, Wright spent a year in Europe and then returned to America and soon inherited his family's farm in Spring Green, Wisconsin. It was here in 1911 that he built his famous Taliesin house. In 1915, Wright went to Japan and designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo where he remained until 1922.

Innovations of this kind raised some serious doubts in the minds of those associated with the Wisconsin Industrial Commission which demanded that Wright build a single column and test-load it with sacks of sand to prove that it could support the specified weight. With the assistance of his son-in-law and engineer Wesley Peters, Wright commenced the test and the results proved that the columns were sufficient to hold the weight by using 60 tons of sand and iron, some five times the required capacity. This illustrates Wright's innovative mind which was far ahead of it time and demonstrates that his architectural talents were beyond many of his contemporaries.

It was Sullivan who came up with the famous line "Form follows function," meaning that the design of buildings must be related to how they are to be used, a rather radical idea at the time but an idea that Wright took to heart from his "master." Wright remained with Sullivan for about five years as a draughtsman and designer and contributed to several of Sullivan's famous structures, one in particular being the Charmley House in the city of Chicago. It was also during this time, circa 1889, that Wright designed his own house in Oak Park, Ill

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