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His Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was cleverly designed by Wright to float in mud rather than stand rigidly in a foundation, and as a result it withstood a massive earthquake in 1923 (on the day of its opening) that reduced nearly many other structures
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Some consider Wright's influence to have continuing "infinite relevance."
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Wright's buildings have been featured in movies, most notably his "Ennis House" in Los Angeles which provided a location for filming “Blade Runner,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Rush Hour,” and “The Karate Kid Part III.”
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→External links: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation's bio of him
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Wright's buildings can be found in nearly every part of the United States today.
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His work was primarily in the Midwest and West, and did not care as much for New York City where his brilliant Guggenheim Museum (and a home on Staten Island) opened after his death.
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→Trivia: improved discussion of The House on the Rock, added a link to it.
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→Trivia: The "House on the Rock" is an eccentric home built by an architect who was reportedly insulted by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the House on the Rock is a bigger tourist attraction (the biggest in Wisconsin) than Wright's works there.
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→Trivia: wikify
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In addition, some of his projects took a long time to build and are very costly today to maintain, such as taking ten years to construct a home of average size.
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his work also had a tendency toward serious functional flaws, most notably leaky roofs
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In a career that spanned a half-century, he designed approximately 1,100 skyscrapers, hotels, homes, museums, and churches, and more than 500 of these designs were actually built.
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uniquely original in his work
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improved a bit, needs a still better introduction that describes Wright's genius better
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→The "Prairie House"
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