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| | [[Image:Frank_Lloyd_Wright.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Frank Lloyd Wright]] | | [[Image:Frank_Lloyd_Wright.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Frank Lloyd Wright]] |
| − | '''Frank Lloyd Wright''' (b. June 8, 1867, Richland Center, [[Wisconsin]] - 1959) was the greatest [[American]] [[architect]], uniquely original in his work. 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.<ref>https://www.kcur.org/post/7-frank-lloyd-wright-buildings-kansas-and-missouri</ref> His early career was studded with commercial projects, but he did not always please builders. While he fell upon hard times he turned 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. His work was primarily in the [[Midwest]] and West,<ref>https://www.thoughtco.com/architecture-by-frank-lloyd-wright-3573373</ref> 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.<ref>https://forgotten-ny.com/2013/12/frank-lloyd-wright-in-great-neck/</ref> | + | '''Frank Lloyd Wright''' (b. June 8, 1867, Richland Center, [[Wisconsin]] - 1959) was the greatest [[American]] [[architect]], uniquely original in his work. 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.<ref>https://www.kcur.org/post/7-frank-lloyd-wright-buildings-kansas-and-missouri</ref> His early career was studded with commercial projects, but he did not always please builders. While he fell upon hard times he turned 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. His work was primarily in the [[Midwest]] and West,<ref name="Works">https://www.thoughtco.com/architecture-by-frank-lloyd-wright-3573373</ref> 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.<ref>https://forgotten-ny.com/2013/12/frank-lloyd-wright-in-great-neck/</ref> |
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| | 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.<ref>http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Amer-arch</ref> | | 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.<ref>http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Amer-arch</ref> |
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| | {{cquote|The ceilings inside Fallingwater drop from a maximum of 9ft to a rather stooping 6ft 4in. Wright based proportions intuitively around his own height - 5ft 8 1/2 in [another source says 5' 7"] - and if his clients were tall, well, they just had to bend to the maestro's proportional will. William Wesley Peters, one of Wright's associates, was well over 6ft tall. Wright once told him: "Sit down, Wes, you're ruining the scale of my architecture."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/sep/10/artsfeatures</ref>}} | | {{cquote|The ceilings inside Fallingwater drop from a maximum of 9ft to a rather stooping 6ft 4in. Wright based proportions intuitively around his own height - 5ft 8 1/2 in [another source says 5' 7"] - and if his clients were tall, well, they just had to bend to the maestro's proportional will. William Wesley Peters, one of Wright's associates, was well over 6ft tall. Wright once told him: "Sit down, Wes, you're ruining the scale of my architecture."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/sep/10/artsfeatures</ref>}} |
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| − | It has been said that Wright's originality was due to five factors: "nature, music, the geometry of Froebel blocks, [[Japanese]] art and architecture, and the work of [[Louis Sullivan]]."<ref>https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/6/8/15744072/frank-lloyd-wright-louis-sullivan-prairie-school</ref> | + | It has been said that Wright's originality was due to five factors: "nature, music, the geometry of Froebel blocks, [[Japanese]] art and architecture, and the work of [[Louis Sullivan]]."<ref>https://chicago.curbed.com/2017/6/8/15744072/frank-lloyd-wright-louis-sullivan-prairie-school</ref> Wright's buildings can be found in nearly every part of the [[United States]] today.<ref name="Works"/> |
| | ==The "Prairie House"== | | ==The "Prairie House"== |
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| | *'''Price Tower''' (1952 to 1956), at Bartlesville, Oklahoma. | | *'''Price Tower''' (1952 to 1956), at Bartlesville, Oklahoma. |
| | *The '''Guggenheim Museum''' (1956 to 1959) in upper [[Manhattan]] is one of his best-known "late career" accomplishments<ref>http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Guggenheim_Museum.html</ref> | | *The '''Guggenheim Museum''' (1956 to 1959) in upper [[Manhattan]] is one of his best-known "late career" accomplishments<ref>http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Guggenheim_Museum.html</ref> |
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