Frank Lloyd Wright Biography

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Born asFrank Lincoln Wright
Occup.Architect
FromUSA
BornJune 8, 1867
Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA
DiedApril 9, 1959
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
CausePneumonia
Aged91 years
Frank Lloyd Wright was a prominent American engineer, developer, as well as writer, born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Facility, Wisconsin. He grew up in a household of Welsh descent, elevated by his mother after his dad left the family members when Wright was simply a toddler.

Wright studied design briefly at the University of Wisconsin prior to relocating to Chicago as well as apprenticing with architectural firm Adler and also Sullivan. Wright's ingenious suggestions as well as skills quickly came to be apparent, and also he rose to come to be a companion in the company in 1889. However, he left the company in 1893 to start his very own method.

Wright's design of design was called "organic style" - a technique that looked for to incorporate the structure with its natural environments. His layout concepts turned down typical European styles and also rather focused on the American landscape, using all-natural products like timber, stone, and glass for construction.

Some of Wright's most popular works include the Kaufmann Home, additionally referred to as "Fallingwater", in Pennsylvania, which is developed over a falls, as well as the Guggenheim Museum in New York City City, which features a spiral ramp that contours around the main atrium.

Wright also made furniture and residence style, including the famous "Taliesin" lamp, which is still generated today. He also ventured right into urban preparation, producing prepare for the mile-high skyscraper "The Illinois" in Chicago.

Selection of famous structures:
Larkin Structure, Buffalo (New York City) (1904, knocked down 1950).
Unity Temple, Oak Park, Chicago (1906).
Robie House, Chicago (1909).
Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania (1935-1939).
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City (1943-1959).

Wright's private life was often turbulent. He separated two times and had countless events throughout his career. In 1914, his mistress, Mamah Cheney, as well as 6 others were murdered at his Taliesin home in Wisconsin by among Wright's staff members.

Nevertheless, Wright's payments to American architecture are exceptional. He thought that buildings should be functional, lovely, and also attuned to their natural environments - ideas that continue to influence architects all over the world to today.

Wright died on April 9, 1959, in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 91. He left behind a tradition of cutting-edge design as well as an enduring mark on American design.


Our collection contains 54 quotes who is written / told by Frank, under the main topics: Art - Politics - Technology - Architecture.

Related authors: Anne Baxter (Actress), Taliesin (Poet)

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54 Famous quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Small: Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles
"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles"
Small: Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art
"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art"
Small: The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen"
Small: Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his t
"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age"
Small: The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilizat
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"
Small: Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind
"Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind"
Small: The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he cant see at least t
"The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect"
Small: Art for arts sake is a philosophy of the well-fed
"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed"
Small: A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of gov
"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it"
Small: A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines"
Small: Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world
"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"
Small: I believe in God, only I spell it Nature
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature"
Small: God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosopher
"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see"
Small: Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has
"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall"
Small: The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind
"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind"
Small: Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I th
"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"
Small: If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger"
Small: I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with
"I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture"
Small: I feel coming on a strange disease - humility
"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility"
Small: I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it
"I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it"
Small: Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct r
"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual"
Small: Less is only more where more is no good
"Less is only more where more is no good"
Small: The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully
"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty"
Small: Space is the breath of art
"Space is the breath of art"
Small: Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you"
Small: Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders spinning, buildings qualified by light,
"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground"
Small: Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic sim
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity"
Small: Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed
"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now"
Small: To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fi
"To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor"
Small: The truth is more important than the facts
"The truth is more important than the facts"
Small: Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral"
Small: TV is chewing gum for the eyes
"TV is chewing gum for the eyes"
Small: Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities"
Small: Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes
"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes"
Small: Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former an
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change"
Small: Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies you cant nail them to a w
"Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall"
Small: Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun
"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun"
Small: Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances
"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances"
Small: The space within becomes the reality of the building
"The space within becomes the reality of the building"
Small: The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope"
Small: The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so t
"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings"
Small: An idea is salvation by imagination
"An idea is salvation by imagination"
Small: An architects most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site
"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site"
Small: All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable
"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable"
Small: A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesnt afterward
"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward"
Small: A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, en
"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart"
Small: Television is chewing gum for the eyes
"Television is chewing gum for the eyes"
Small: New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent
"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent"
Small: Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the days work. I follow
"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain"
Small: Mechanization best serves mediocrity
"Mechanization best serves mediocrity"
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