Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was considered one of the 20th century's greatest architects. He accomplished many things in his lifetime, including the design of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City along with about one thousand other buildings. He was born on June 8, 1867, and lived until he was almost 92 years old, dying on April 9, 1959. He never retired, even when he knew that he was dying. He created the so-called organic architecture that changed the way people look at what architecture is. Before Frank Lloyd Wright was born, his mother, Anna Lloyd Jones Wright, said that he was going to be a great architect. Little did she know that her prediction would soon come true. In his childhood, his mother influenced her son by using a German educator named Frobel's geometric blocks. She used them to entertain and educate him. Wright was encouraged throughout his childhood to use his imagination, and was free to wander around a playroom filled with paste, paper and cardboard. Years later, when he was in high school, Wright's parents divorced and he dropped out of school. At age 15 Wright started working as a draftsman for William Conover, a civil engineer, while he attended classes as a special student at the University of Wiscons
Some of the later works that he did after he returned from Europe and Japan were the Millard House (1923) in Pasadena, CA and the famous Edgar S. Kaufmann house (1937), also called Fallingwater, in Bear Run, PA. Fallingwater clearly defined what his "organic" architecture was, and marked the beginning of many more buildings linked to the organic architecture being designed after that. When it was designed, the house was way ahead of its time period. That's what Frank Lloyd Wright was trying to do with his buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright - Biography. [online] Available http://www.marin.org/mc/pos/flw/flw.bio.html. May 14, 2000. The relationship between Wright and the employees caused lots of stress between himself and the other draftsmen and Sullivan and Adler. Wright began to take jobs outside of the firm, and also stole the jobs from the firm for his own profit. Sullivan soon found this out, and Wright left within six years of joining the firm. Wright then quickly built up his own practice in residential architecture. In one point of his career, he produced plans for 135 buildings in only ten years. A few more of the great buildings that he designed in his prime were the Johnson Wax Company Administration Building (1939) in Racine, WI; First Unitarian Church (1947) in Madison, WI; the V.C. Morris gift shop (1950) in San Francisco; and the Price Tower (1953), a skyscraper in Bartlesville, OK. Probably considered the most famous and well-known building that he designed was the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Sadly, the building was completed shortly after his death on April 9, 1959, in Phoenix, Arizona. One of his most remarkable engineering feats was designing the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, which was made to withstand earthquakes since they were so common there. He used cantilever construction for the required flexibility of the building in a foundation that floated on a bed of soft mud. This building was completed in 1922, and suffered no damage in the major earthquake that occurred the next year. Now that you know he ha
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