Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959)
Author of The Natural House
About the Author
Wright is widely considered the greatest American architect and certainly one of the most influential. Throughout a career of nearly 70 years, he produced masterpiece after masterpiece, each different and boldly new and yet each with the unmistakable touch of Wright's genius in the treatment of show more material, the detailing, and the overall concept. Born in Wisconsin of Welsh ancestry, Wright studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin and began his career in Chicago as chief assistant to Louis Henry Sullivan, who influenced his early thinking on the American architect as harbinger of democracy and on the organic nature of the true architecture. Out of these ideas, Wright developed the so-called prairie house, of which the Robie House in Chicago and the Avery Coonley House in Riverdale, Illinois, are outstanding examples. In the "prairie-style," Wright used terraces and porches to allow the inside to flow easily outside. Movement within such houses is also open and free-floating from room to room and from layer to layer. Public buildings followed: the Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo (destroyed) and the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the former probably the most original and seminal office building up to that time (1905). The Midway Gardens in Chicago and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (both gone) came next, winning Wright still greater acclaim. Personal tragedy, misunderstanding, and neglect dogged Wright's middle years, but he prevailed, and in his later life gathered enormous success and fame. The masterworks of his mature years are the Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wisconsin, and Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania---with its bold cantilevered balconies over a running stream, probably the most admired and pictured private house in American architecture; then, toward the end of his life, the spiral design of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Wright's own houses, to which he joined architectural studios, are also noteworthy: Taliesin West was a true Shangri-la in the Arizona desert, to which he turned in order to escape the severe winters in Wisconsin, where he had built his extraordinary Taliesin East. Wright was a prolific and highly outspoken writer, ever polemical, ever ready to propagate his ideas and himself. All of his books reflect a passionate dedication to his beliefs---in organic architecture, democracy, and creativity. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Frank Lloyd Wright
In the Cause of Architecture: Essays by Frank Lloyd Wright for Architectural Record, 1908-1952 (1975) 38 copies
At Taliesin: Newspaper Columns by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Friendship, 1934 - 1937 (1992) 17 copies
Sixty years of living architecture: The work of Frank Lloyd Wright: [exhibition] the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1952) 9 copies
Wright in Arizona: The Early Work of Pedro E. Guerrero: A Selection of Photographs from the Pedro E. Guerrero… (1996) 8 copies
Taliesin 6 copies
Frank Lloyd Wright 6 copies
Frank Lloyd Wright Houses: Book of Postcards (Frank Lloyd Wright Collection (Postcards)) (2006) 4 copies
Frank Lloyd Wright 4 copies
In the Nature of Materials 1ST Edition: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (1942) 3 copies
Frank Lloyd Wright papers 2 copies
Japanese Prints Exhibition 2 copies
designs for houses 2 copies
Testamento 2 copies
Furanku roido raito no jūtaku 2 copies
Twentieth-Century Houses (Architecture 3s): Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames (1999) — Illustrator — 2 copies
Frank Lloyd Wright : essential texts 2 copies
The Robie House 2 copies
Frank Lloyd Wright and Viollet-Le-Duc: Organic Architecture and Design from 1850 to 1950 (1986) 2 copies
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, N.Y., 1943-59 : Marin County Civic Center, California, 1957-1970 (1975) 1 copy
Cassina: Frank Lloyd Wright 1 copy
Schriften und Bauten 1 copy
Taliesin West 1 copy
Taliesin East, Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1925- ; Taliesin West, Paradise Valley, Arizona, 1938- 1 copy
The Living City 1 copy
Taliesin: East and West 1 copy
Global Interior Number 9 1 copy
Selected drawings portfolio 1 copy
Away With the Realtor 1 copy
The Industrial Revolution Runs Away: The Disappearing City (Edition Limited to 1,250 Numbered Copies) (1962) 1 copy
Stained Glass 1 copy
The Taliesin Fellowship 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Wright, Frank Lincoln (born)
- Birthdate
- 1867-06-08
- Date of death
- 1959-04-09
- Burial location
- Unity Chapel, Spring Green, Wisconsin (first)
Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona (second) - Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA
- Place of death
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Places of residence
- Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA
Spring Green, Wisconsin, USA
Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Florence, Italy (show all 8)
Fiesole, Italy
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA - Education
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Occupations
- architect
- Relationships
- Wright, John Lloyd (son)
Wright, Lloyd (son)
Wright, Eric Lloyd (grandson)
Enright, Maginel Wright (sister)
Enright, Elizabeth (niece) - Organizations
- Cliff Dwellers
- Awards and honors
- Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1955)
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Frank Lloyd Wright in Memoirs and autobiographies (December 2023)
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