Designer: Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 - 1959
From: Richland Center, Wisconsin
It could easily be said that Frank Lloyd Wright is America's most famous architect. Admired by both casual design enthusiasts and those in the architecture profession, Wright has made a lasting impression in American design, including art, furniture, architecture and community planning.
Facts:
• Trained under famed architect Louis Sullivan at Adler & Sullivan
• During his seventy-year career, Wright created over 1,100 designs, nearly half of which were realized.
• Wright was an active dealer in Japanese art, primarily ukiyo-e woodblock prints. He was also a collector of Japanese prints and used them as teaching aids with his apprentices.
• Recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time."
Quote: What is architecture anyway? Is it the vast collection of the various buildings which have been built to please the varying tastes of the various lords of mankind? I think not. No, I know that architecture is life; or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived… So, architecture I know to be a Great Spirit.
Attended: University of Wisconsin-Madison (did not graduate)
Known for: The Prarie School movement, organic architecture and his series of smaller Usonian homes.
Representative Pieces Shown Above: (left to right)
1. Fallingwater, Pennsylvania 1935
2. Taliesin Barrel Chair (reproduction shown)
3. Johnson Wax Building, Wisconsin 1936
4. Robie House Stained Glass (adapted from one of Wright's 29 Robie House art glass windows and doors)
5. Robie House, Illinois 1910
6. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1959
7. Frank Lloyd Wright For Tiffany Coffee Mugs
Frank Lloyd Wright On the Web:
• Wikipedia
• Decopedia on Deconet
• Wright Now
• 1st Dibs
• Shop Wright
(Images: As Linked)
Info Sources: Wikipedia, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
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Although a lesser-known commission, the Meyer May House in Grand Rapids, MI is another great example of Wright's style of architecture. Owned and restored by Steelcase, the house is open to the public and staffed by a group of knowledgeable docents. The house's website, http://meyermayhouse.steelcase.com, includes a nice section on Wright's principles of architecture.
Brilliant architect. Not so much so for his interior design...
My parents once decided not to buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house that was for sale in Minnesota. They made the decision for lots of very practical reasons and they may have been right.
But I've never really forgiven them.
Here is a Frank Lloyd Wright House that's still a private home.
Buffalo, and the All Wright All Day Tour! Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural gems in Buffalo:
http://www.darwinmartinhouse.org/tour_descriptions.cfm
Sadly, not all people recognize the enormous value of Wright's designs. In Phoenix, AZ, a developer wants to demolish the home that Wright designed for his son David to make room for another (most likely) McMansion.
Wright was phenomenal!
I always loved this home because of how it incorporated the water and nature into the design. We always talk about how brilliant Frank Lloyd Wright was but I remember reading that this particular design was, although innovative, slightly flawed. There was some sort of problem with the cantilevers. But, the great thing about Wright was that he dared to dream, design, and build even though his work wasn't always perfect.
A FLW house in Issaquah, WA is for sale. A couple of years ago I was able to stop by Taliesin West and sat in the living room chairs - the plywoody ones - and started getting a little misty. Thankfully I held it together, my sister would have thought I was nuts.
He influenced the Bauhaus too, so although he didn't consider himself a modernist he definitely influenced modernist architecture.
That made me laugh out loud at work, Dulcibella. Ha.
I have always appreciated Wright's genius and innovation, but was less impressed by Fallingwater after walking through it, and seeing how bad the structural problems were (and the leaking), almost right from the start. It also didn't feel very inviting as a home (even a weekend home). Though perhaps that's not everyone's goal.
I too wasn't impressed by Falling Waters either. I felt that his ego preceded him and although he tried to invoke the Japanese concept of integration with nature, I felt like his structure tried to conquer nature (thus why it has structural problems. )