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Frank Lloyd Wright-1867-1959
Frank Lloyd Wright is a considered by many to be one of the worlds greatest architects. His designs were prolific, encompassing more than 1000 works and resulting in more than 500 completed projects most of which stand today.
Frank Lloyd Wright was a native son of Wisconsin and born in Richland Center. His father was a musician and preacher and his mother a teacher. Wright spent some of his growing up years on his uncles farm near Spring Green, WI.
Taliesin--Exterior View--Spring Green, WI
Courtesy of the Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Wright studied civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin and then began a career with an architectural firm. Wrights prolific creativity came to trouble for him when he began to 'moonlight' and design houses on his own, against the policies of the architectural firm where he was employed, and resulted in his termination.
These early designs are esteemed by some to show some of the early esthetics that would later mature in his work.
Frank Lloyd Wright Studio: Playroom, interior: playroom, Oak Park, IL
Courtesy of the Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
In 1893 Wright started his own firm and between 1893 and 1901 he built nearly 50 buildings and developed and refined many of his ideas.
Wright built a his famous 'Taliesin' on the farm of his uncle near Spring Green, but it was nearly destroyed by a fire set by a 'crazed servant' who also murdered Mr. Wright's lover and killed six others.
Taliesin I, interior: living room, Spring Green, WI
Courtesy of the Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard UniversityThe years following were rocky years for Wright as he rebuilt Taliesin, divorced and remarried, and divorced again. Wright met his third wife, Olgivanna Milonoff who was a student of the mystic G.I. Gurdjieff.
In 1932 Wright wrote his autobiography and formed the Taliesin fellowship with an initial thirty apprentices who came to live and work with him.
Later Wright began a Taliesin West in Arizona.
Detail of winter quarters of Frank Lloyd Wright at foot of McDowell Mountain. Maricopa County, Arizona.
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USF35-1326]
Frank Lloyd Wright never retired. He died in 1959 at age 92 in Arizona. His wife, Olgivanna died in 1985.
Frank Lloyd Wrights gravestone epitaph in Wisconsin (though he was later cremated and his ashes placed next to his wifes in Arizona) reads, "Love of an idea, is the love of God."
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