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'''Frank Lloyd Wright''' (1887 - 1959) was an American [[architect]].  His career was varied, as he did not always please those who hired designers of buildings.  While his early career was studded with commercial projects, he fell upon hard times and was reduced to designing houses for wealthy people in the greater Chicago area.  In the third phase of his career, he was once again welcomed as the genius he was, and added greatly to the vocabulary of modern American architecture.

'''Frank Lloyd Wright''' (1887 - 1959) was an American [[architect]].  His career was varied, as he did not always please those who hired designers of buildings.  While his early career was studded with commercial projects, he fell upon hard times and was reduced to designing houses for wealthy people in the greater Chicago area.  In the third phase of his career, he was once again welcomed as the genius he was, and added greatly to the vocabulary of modern American architecture.

One cannot help but be amazed at the subtle beauty of almost any building he designed, whether it was a corporate headquarters, or a house in Illinois.

Wright, generally acknowledged as one of the greatest architects of the 20th cent., developed a highly original approach to residential design before World War I, which became known as the "Prairie Style." His early work, executed in and around Chicago, combined open planning principles with horizontal emphasis, asymmetrical facade elevations, and broad, sheltering roofs, as seen, for example, in his Robie House (1909). Wright, who stood apart from the European-derived modernist mainstream, continued to design buildings into his old age, producing some of his finest and most idiosyncratic works, such as the Guggenheim Museum. [http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Amer-arch]

Wright's style involved several elements, not the least of which was his strong personality.  He emphasized working with the land and the locality, preferring to use building materials which were locally available, and setting his projects "in to" their surroundings, rather than "against them".  He was a perfectionist and a philosopher of sorts.  He would not only design a "building", but also the furniture to be used in it, if it was a dwelling, or where the desks and filing cabinets would go - and how they were to be built - if it was commercial project.

Wright's style involved several elements, not the least of which was his strong personality.  He emphasized working with the land and the locality, preferring to use building materials which were locally available, and setting his projects "in to" their surroundings, rather than "against them".  He was a perfectionist and a philosopher of sorts.  He would not only design a "building", but also the furniture to be used in it, if it was a dwelling, or where the desks and filing cabinets would go - and how they were to be built - if it was commercial project.

He would design every detail of a building, incorporating highly detailed [[Art Deco]] elements, for instance in windows and furniture.

One cannot help but be amazed at the subtle beauty of almost any building he designed, whether it was a corporate headquarters, or a house in Illinois. He would design every detail of a building, incorporating highly detailed [[Art Deco]] elements, for instance in windows and furniture.

Although his structures and ideas were a brilliant revolution, his work also had a tendency toward serious flaws - he is famously quoted as saying to a client who complained that the roof leaked over his desk, "move your desk".

Although his structures and ideas were a brilliant revolution, his work also had a tendency toward serious flaws - he is famously quoted as saying to a client who complained that the roof leaked over his desk, "move your desk".