1. Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior
designer,writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000
structures and completed 532.He lived from June 8, 1867 to April
9, 1959.
His work includes original and innovative examples of many
building types, including offices,churches, schools,skyscrapers,
hotels, and museums.Wright also designed many of the interior
elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass.
He wrote a total of 20 books and many articles, and is a popular
lecturer in the United States and Europe.
From young, his mother exposes Frank Lloyd Wright to
architecture. According to his biography his mother declared,when
she was expecting her first child, that he would grow up to build
beautiful buildings. She decorated his nursery with engravings of
English cathedrals torn from a periodicalto encourage the infant's
ambition.
While working for a company, he breached the contracts and did
some solo work. Most are called "bootlegged" houses,as he later
called them, were conservatively designed in variations of the
fashionable Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles.
Nevertheless,unlike the prevailing architecture of the period, each
house emphasized simple geometric massing and contained
features such as bands of horizontal windows, occasional
cantilivers and openfloor plans, which would becomehallmarks of
his later work.
Wright's residential designs were known as "prairie houses"
because the designs complementedthe land around Chicago.
These houses featured extended low buildings with shallow,
sloping roofs,clean sky lines, suppressed chimneys,overhangs
and terraces all using unfinished materials. Windows whenever
possible are long, and low, allowing a connectionbetween the
interior and nature, outside, that was new to western architecture
and reflected the influence of Japanese architecture on Wright.
The manipulation of interior space in residential and public
buildings is hallmarks of his style. Wright also designed some of
his own clothing.
His fashion sense was unique, and he usually wore expensive
suits, ties, and capes. Wright drove a famously customized 1940
Lincoln for many years.