Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 - 9 April 1959) was a famous architect of the early 1900s. His house was known by the nickname Robbie House, that such spatial maze and geometric stained glass windows. House of information can be found in the book The Wright 3 Blue Balliet's work. Frank Lloyd Wright holds a special charm in the form of Japanese fish nefrit.


He developed a series of styles that are very individual, influencing the design of buildings around the world, and until recently was a famous architect of the United States.



Wright is also known throughout his life. Colorful personal life often made headlines, especially about the failure of his first marriage and two arson and murder at his Taliesin studio in 1914.



Born in the pertanianf Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA and brought the concept of unitarian and the principles of openness / transcendental, eventually designing the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois. As a child she poured its copyright power by playing the boxes made by the children's playground kindergarten Friedrich Wilhelm August (better known as Froebel's blocks) given his mother. Various geometrically shaped blocks that can 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 has earned. Many of his buildings is based on geometric shapes.



Wright commenced his formal education in 1885 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 1887, Wright left the university without a degree (although he earned high honors for his artwork from the tahun1955 alma mater) and moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he joined the architectural firm of Joseph Lyman Silsbee. Over the years, he had left Silsbee to work for the firm of Adler and Sullivan. Beginning in 1890, he was assigned all residential design work for the company. In 1893, after a falling out That probably concerned the work he had taken on outside the office, Wright left Adler and Sullivan to establish his own practice and settled in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, IL. He had completed around fifty projects in 1901 including many houses in his hometown.



Between 1900 and 1910, his residential designs were "Prairie Houses" (extended low buildings with shallow sloping roofs, clean sky lines, suppressed chimneys, overhangs and terraces, using unfinished materials), so called Because the design is Considered to complement the land around Chicago. Housing is set to be the first example of the "open plan" In fact, the manipulation of interior space in residential and public buildings [such as the Unity Temple] is the hallmark of his style. He believes that humanity is the center of the design. Much of his work can be found in Buffalo, New York, resulting in a bond of friendship between Wright and an executive from the Larkin Soap Company, Darwin D. Martin. In 1902 the Larkin Company decided to build a new administration building. Wright to Buffalo and designed not only for the Larkin Administration Building (the building has been demolished for another), but also home to three company executives:


George Barton House, Buffalo NY, 1903
Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo NY, 1904
William Heath House, Buffalo NY, 1905