Frank Lloyd Wright

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Frank Lloyd Wright

• June 8, 1867 April 9, 1959

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Frank Lloyd Wright

• Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect,
  interior designer, writer, and educator.

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• Wright promoted organic architecture
• Fallingwater, is a house designed by American
  architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural
  southwestern Pennsylvania.
• The house was built partly over a waterfall in
  Bear Run at Rural Route 1 in the Mill Run section
  of Pennsylvania.
• Hailed by TIME magazine shortly after its
  completion as Wright's "most beautiful job," the
  home inspired Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead,
  and is listed among Smithsonian magazine's Life
  List of 28 places "to visit before ...it's too
  late."

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Frank Lloyd Wright

• The Robie House is one of the best known examples
  of Prairie Style architecture. The term was
  coined by architectural critics and historians
  (not by Wright) who noticed how the buildings and
  their various components (e.g. doors, windows,
  furniture, tapestries, etc.) owed their design
  influence to the landscape and plant life of the
  midwest prairie of the United States.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

• Prairie houses were characterized by low,
  horizontal lines that were meant to blend with
  the flat landscape around them. Typically, these
  structures were built around a central chimney,
  consisted of broad open spaces instead of
  strictly defined rooms, and deliberately blurred
  the distinction between interior space and the
  surrounding terrain.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

• Hollyhock House is Wright's first Los Angeles
  project. Built between 1919 and 1921, it
  represents his earliest efforts to develop a
  regionally appropriate style of architecture for
  Southern California. Wright himself referred to
  it as California Romanza, using a musical term
  meaning "freedom to make one's own form".Taking
  advantage of Los Angeles' dry, temperate climate,
  Hollyhock House is a remarkable combination of
  house and gardens. In addition to the central
  garden court, each major interior space adjoins
  an equivalent exterior space, connected either by
  glass doors, a porch, pergola or colonnade. A
  series of rooftop terraces further extend the
  living space and provide magnificent views of the
  Los Angeles basin and the Hollywood Hills.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

• Frank Lloyd Wright created the Guggenheim Museum
  as a series of organic shapes. Circular forms
  spiral down down like the interior of a shell.
  Visitors to the museum begin on the upper level
  and follow a sloping ramp downward through
  connected exhibition spaces. At the core, an open
  rotunda offers views of artwork on several
  levels.

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