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Extractions: Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin., June 8, 1867 and died on April 9, 1959. When he was 15, Wright entered the University of Wisconsin as a special student. He studied engineering because the school had no course in architecture. Leaving school after a few semesters, he apprenticed with J.L. Silsbee and Louis Sullivan in Chicago in 1887. While working under Louis Sullivan, he began to design and independently build private houses for some of Adler and Sullivans clients. These "bootlegged houses", as Wright called them, soon revealed an independent talent quite distinct from that of Sullivan. Wrights houses had low, sweeping rooflines hanging over uninterrupted walls of windows; his plans were centered on massive brick or stone fireplaces at the heart of the house; his rooms became increasingly open to one another; and the overall configuration of his plans became more and more asymmetrical, reaching out toward some real or imagined expansive horizon. The architecture of these houses served as the inspirational source for the Prairie School. Wrights distaste for urban environments and his embrace of the natural environment are observed in the contrasting features of some of his finest buildings of the early 1900s: the Larkin Company Administration Building (1904; demolished 1950) in Buffalo, New York, and the Unity Church in Oak Park, Illinois; compared with Buffalos Martin House and Chicagos Robie House. The houses are characterized by large, glazed walls, terraces, and low-slung roof overhangs.
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Extractions: Frank Lloyd Wright was born as Frank Lincoln Wright in Richland Center in southwestern Wisconsin , on June 8, 1867 (a date sometimes reported as 1869). His father, William Carey Wright, was a musician and a preacher. His mother, Anna Lloyd-Jones was a teacher. It is said that Anna Lloyd-Jones placed pictures of great buildings in young Frank's nursery as part of training him up from the earliest possible moment as an architect. Wright spent some of his time growing up at the farm owned by his uncles near Spring Green, Wisconsin (also in the southwestern part of the state). Frank Lloyd Wright was of Welsh ethnic heritage, and was brought up in the Unitarian faith Wright briefly studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, after which he moved to Chicago to work for a year in the architectural firm of J. Lyman Silsbee. In 1887, he hired on as a draftsman draftsman in the firm of Adler and Sullivan, run by Louis Sullivan (design) and Dankmar Adler (engineering) at the time the firm was designing Chicago's Auditorium Building . Wright eventuallly became the chief draftsman, and also the man in charge of the firm's residential designs. Under Sullivan, whom Wright called "Lieber Meister" (beloved master), Wright began to develop his own architectural ideas. In 1889 he married his first wife, Catherine Tobin. He also designed houses on his own toward the end, homes Wright called
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Extractions: All-Wright Site This page contains organized links to other Frank Lloyd Wright sites in many categories. Please send me e-mail if you know of links to add, discontinued (dead link) sites, or sites that have changed their location. Links for buildings and and state-specific pages are found in the Building Guide . Some links to books are found in the appropriate categories. The arrows to the right of the category names let you go up a category, down a category, or to the top of the page. Most of the links in the categories are unique, but there are some major web sites such as the Building Conservancy that are appropriate for multiple categories. More than 200 unique links are found in this page, and hundreds more can be found if you go to the Building Guide section. These links were last checked and updated during March, 2002. Comprehensive Frank Lloyd Wright Sites Official Frank Lloyd Wright sites Preservation Buildings ... General-Interest Architecture Search for books on Frank Lloyd Wright,
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Extractions: Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright June 8 April 9 ) was one of the most prominent architects of the first half of the 20th century. To this day he is easily America's most famous architect (topping Philip Johnson Louis Kahn , and Frank Gehry ) and still extremely well-known in the common public's eye. edit He was born in the agricultural town of Richland Center, Wisconsin USA , and brought up with strong Unitarian and transcendental principles (eventually he would design the Unity Temple in Oak Park Illinois ). As a child he spent a great deal of time playing with the kindergarten educational blocks by Friedrich Wilhelm August Fr¶bel (popularly known as Froebel's blocks) given by his mother. These consisted of various geometrically shaped blocks that could be assembled in various combinations to form three-dimensional compositions. Wright in his autobiography talks about the influence of these exercises on his approach to design. Many of his buildings are notable for the geometrical clarity they exhibit. Wright commenced his formal education in at the University of Wisconsin School for Engineering , where he was a member of a fraternity Phi Delta Theta . He took classes part time for two years while apprenticing under Allen Conover , a local builder and professor of civil engineering. In
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Extractions: A brilliant psychologist, Frank Lloyd Wright, became the spokeman for American architecture around the world. He understood human needs and administered to them through his work. Above all he sought repose, a restful environment free of tension which catered to the mental health and happiness of the indweller. Born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in 1890, Wright not only influenced this area with his Prairie Style architecture, but expanded to Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York, and eventually beyond the boundaries of the United States. Wright conceived of the interior space in terms of rooms overlapping and interpenetratingoften at the corners. Use areas were defined by screaning devices and subtle changes in ceiling heights. For Wright, spaces were defined rather than enclosed, and use was relative to the individual rather than absolute. Until the outbreak of war in 1914, Wright continually evolved the prairie house toward greater abstraction in Oak Park, near Chicago. Roofs and balconies gradually became flat, hovering slabs, and a geometric interplay between verticals and horizontals replaced an emphais upon wall. Even his non-residential work reflected this development: the Larkin Administration Building and Unity Temple reiterated geometric shapes and the uselessness of a visible roof.
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Extractions: Frank Lloyd Wright is a name that is spoken synonymously with the advancement of American architecture in the early twentieth century. For seventy years he worked to push the architectural profession in America to new limits. Wright sought to create an architecture that reconciled men's and women's relationship with nature, and Wright's quest resulted in a style so successful and so innovative that, for once, instead of America's looking to Europe for new ideas, Europe's avant-garde looked to America's Prairie Style for inspiration. His influence in Europe coincides with the beginning of Modernism. Although at this time architecture in both America and Europe returned to classical styles, Wright held on to ideas he had seen in earlier exotic revivals and a uniquely American style, the Shingle Style. He was inspired by the open plans popular in the Far East, which he first applied in his design of the Winslow House (1893). From Japan, he borrowed the concept of the
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Resources In The Civic Center Library Two Chicago Architects and Their Clients frank lloyd wright and Howard Van DorenShaw. Romanza The California Architecture of frank lloyd wright. http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/lb/main/crm/flw.html
Extractions: Biography ... Marin County Civic Center Chronology Architecture Abernathy, Ann. The Oak Park Home and Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright. Oak Park, Ill.: Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation, 1988. Alofsin, Anthony, ed. Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Besinger, Curtis. Working With Frank Lloyd Wright: What It Was Like. New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Birk, Melanie. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie. New York: Universe, 1998. Blake, Peter. The Masterbuilders: le Courbusier, Mies van der rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Norton, 1976. Boulton, Alexander O. Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect: An Illustrated Biography. New York: Rizzoli, 1993. Brooks, H. Allen (Harold Allen). Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School. New York, Braziller, 1984. Cleary, Richard Louis.
Extractions: To facilitate its use as a convenient field guide, this durable flexibound edition gives full addresses with each entry, as well as GPS coordinates, and offers maps giving the shortest route to each building. Preserving the chronological order of past editions, the catalog allows readers to trace the progression of Wright's built designs from the early Prairie school works to the last building constructed to Wright's specifications on the original site. Elsewhere on the web: FLlW Update publishes William Allin Storrer's continued research on Wright's life and work. A Robie House page on the website of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. Pages for Heller House and Robie House from the Chicago Commission on Landmarks. Steven Leigh's links to Wright websites With the Robie house, development of the Prairie cantilever reaches maturity. The cantilever was, to Wright, the second principle of organic design (the unit system, generating a regular grid, was the first). The west veranda is shaded by a cantilevered hip roof that reaches 10 feet from the nearest possible supporting member and 21 feet from the closest masonry pier.
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Extractions: Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine Awards: Architectural Critic's Fellowship from The Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in 1980; "Chicago's 40 under 40 Achievers" by Crain's Chicago Business in 1991. The Goldsmith Award by the Industrial Designers Society of America, 1993. His paintings, sculpture, and photography have been exhibited in the United States and throughout Europe. He resides in Chicago and Galena, Illinois and in Naxos, Greece.
Frank Lloyd Wright Bibliography [Books, Authors A-L] frank lloyd wright Architecture and Space. Baltimore Penguin Books, 1965. Romanza The California Architecture of frank lloyd wright. http://www.tblc.org/fsc/FLLW2a.html
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Extractions: @import "/css/default.css"; Home Your account Current issue Archives ... Email to a friend Review Frank Lloyd Wright by Ada Louise Huxtable Lipper/Viking, 251 pp., $19.95 Wright founded what he called the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932, when his own financial prospects were dismal, as they had been throughout much of the 1920s. Having seen the great Chicago architect Louis Sullivan, his former boss, die in poverty not many years earlier, Wright was forestalling his own prospective oblivion. Considered a virtual has-been ("as an architect he has little to contribute," concluded John Cushman Fistere in Vanity Fair The combination of Wright's achievement and his self-dramatizing personality have fed an insatiable appetite for books about him. Huxtable's compact biography is easily one of the most enlightened, sane, and accessi-ble, packing a great many perceptive thoughts about both life and work into a little more than 250 short pages. Wright, as Huxtable remarks at the start, was born just after Lincoln's assassination, and died in the space age. He did not see an electric light until the 1880s, when he went to Chicago as a young man looking for a job. By the turn of the century, he had revolutionized American architecture and become world famous thanks to his Prairie houses, low-slung family homes inspired by the flat midwestern landscape. He left for Japan near the end of World War I to build the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, another low structure consisting of five interconnected buildings. He returned in 1922 to the US, already old enough, and having fallen far enough out of fashion in the meantime, to be deemed over the hill. The 1920s and early 1930s were wilderness years for Wright. He struggled to find sources of income.
Extractions: Shopping Cart Reviews Table of Contents Levine conveys the meanings of the continuities and changes that he sees I Wright's architecture and thought by focusing successive chapters on his most significant buildings, such as the Winslow House, Taliesin, Hollyhock House, Fallingwater, Tailsen west, and the Guggenheim Museum. A new understanding of the representational imagery and narrative structure of Wright's work, along with a much-needed reconsideration of its historical and contextual underpinnings, gives this study a unique place in the writings on Wright. In contrast to the emphasis a previous generation of critics and historians placed on Wright's earlier buildings, this book offers a broader perspective that sees Wright's later work as the culmination of his earlier efforts and the basis for a new understanding of the centrality of his career to the evolution of modern architecture as a whole. Reviews: "Scrupulously researched, elegantly written (with a refreshing lack of jargon), beautifully illustrated and designed . . . the book is a feast for eye and mind, challenging assumptions and deepening understanding on almost every page. . . . Wright's ability to translate the poetic essence of a place into form was unrivaled, and no one has explored it with more insight than Levine."
Extractions: What's New Free Trials Orders Contacts ... Shopping Cart Abbreviated profile from World Authors 1900-1950 Return to World Authors WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD (June 8, 1869 ) Frank Llyod Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, the son of William Russell Cary Wright and Anna Lloyd (Jones). His father was a musician and clergyman from New England, his mother a schoolteacher with strong roots in the Unitarian faith and community. After a peripatetic childhood, Wright's family settled in Madison, Wisconsin in 1880. Anna Wright sent Frank to work summers on his uncles' farms in nearby Spring Green. His time spent working in the vast, flat prairie fields of the Middle West shaped his vision of what was to become "organic architecture." In a lecture published in 1935, Wright remarked upon the importance of simplicity and space informing organic architecture, tracing its origins back to summers on the Lloyd-Jones' farmsteads, "You may see in these various feelings all taking the same direction that I was born an American child of the ground and of space, welcoming spaciousness as a modern human need as well as learning to see it as the natural human opportunity." About: Gill, Brendan: Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1987. Heinz, Thomas A.: Frank Lloyd Wright: New York, St. Martin's Press, 1982. Spencer, Brian A. (editor): The Prairie School Tradition. New York: Watson-Gupthill, 1985. Sullivan, Louis H. The Autobiography of an Idea: Dover 1956. Secrest, Meryl: Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography.Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. New York.1992.
