Biography frank lloyd wright architect studios
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In an effort to redefine American architecture, he resolutely moved away from European models that had set the standard up until that time. He lowered overall heights, eliminated basements (where possible) and attics, and broke up the common box-like Victorian rooms by removing unnecessary interior partitions, introducing free-flowing interior spaces and walls of art glass he called “light screens.” In the 1910s, he attempted to move both his life and his art in a new direction. He abandoned not only the simplicity of his earlier work for greater ornamentation as seen in Chicago’s Midway Gardens and Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel—both now demolished—but the comfort of conventional family life as well. Late in 1909 he left his wife and six children, traveling to Europe with Mamah Borthwick Cheney, a former client, as his companion.
Ostracized upon their return to the United States in 1911, Wright began building Taliesin, near Spring Green, Wisconsin as a home for the two of them. What domes
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Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect (1867–1959)
Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and mentoring hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship.[1][2] Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".[3]
Wright was a pioneer of what came to be called the Prairie School movement of architecture and also developed the concept of the Usonian home in Broadacre City, his vision for urban planning in the United States. He also designed original and innovative offices, ch
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Lloyd Wright (1890-1978)
Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. was born in 1890 and spent his early years in Oak Park, Illinois, and Spring Green, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison for two years, then traveled extensively through Europe after his father moved to Italy in 1909.
In 1911, the younger Wright joined the great landscape firm Olmsted and Olmsted in Boston. He transferred to San Diego later that year to work at the Olmsted nursery created for the 1915 Pan-Pacific utställning. The assignment brought him to Southern California, where he would remain the rest of his life.
The San Diego move also connected him with Irving Gill, one of the first modern architects in California, who later hired him. Wright designed much of the original landscape for the City of Torrance, which was planned jointly by Gill and the Olmsted firm (see Gill’s Preservation Award-winning Pacific-Electric – El Prado Bridge).
In the mid-1910s, Wright formed a landscape partnership with