Frank Lloyd Wright


American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born in 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin. His life was marked by many twists and turns and misfortunes, such as several unfinished schools, divorces, scandals, and the murders of his loved ones, but Wright managed to rise to prominence as an architect and designer through it all. During his lifetime, he visited many countries, and in 1905 Wright made his first visit to Japan, whose art, culture and architecture he was greatly influenced by. In 1909, Wright moved to Berlin, where he worked with the publisher Ernst Wasmuth, who published two of Wright's portfolios, which profoundly influenced other architects and won Wright international recognition. Between 1935 and 1939, Wright built one of his most famous buildings, Fallingwater.

Wright devoted nearly seventy years of his life to designing buildings that brought about a major turning point in 20th century architecture. In all, he designed 1,141 works - houses, offices, churches, schools, libraries, museums and other buildings serving a variety of purposes. Of this number, 532 works were completed, 409 of which are still on view today. Wright's work was not limited to architecture - he also designed furniture, stained glass windows, fabrics, glass, lamps, tableware, cutlery and place settings. He authored twenty books and countless articles, taught throughout the United States and Europe, and dabbled in philosophy. In 1932, he founded his Taliesin Fellowship School, which operated until 1985, when his third wife, Olgivanna, who ran the school, died.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright