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Frank Lloyd Wright, America's Most Famous Architect

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Apprenticeship of Frank Lloyd Wright:

After working with Louis Sullivan for six years, Frank Lloyd Wright opened his own practice.

Buildings Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright:

• FLW Buildings: Complete Directory
• Taliesin West
• Fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright's Important Ideas :

• Usonian
• Prairie Style
• Organic Architecture
• Hemicycle Designs

Famous Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright:

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
^{New York Times Magazine (4 Oct. 1953)}

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About Frank Lloyd Wright:

Frank Lloyd Wright is without a doubt America's most famous architect, and yet he never attended architecture school. As a child, he worked on his uncle's farm in Wisconsin, and he later described himself as an American primitive - an innocent but clever country boy whose education on the farm made him more perceptive and more down-to-earth.

During his 70-year career, Frank Lloyd Wright designed 1,141 buildings, including homes, offices, churches, schools, libraries, bridges, and museums. Five hundred and thirty-two of these designs were completed, and 409 still stand.

Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered a long, low style known as the Prairie house. He experimented with obtuse angles and circles, creating unusually shaped structures such as the spiral Guggenheim Museum (1943-49). He developed a series of low-cost homes that he called Usonian. And most importantly, Frank Lloyd Wright changed the way we think of interior space.

Frank Lloyd Wright was married three times and had seven children. His work was controversial and his private life was often the subject of gossip. Although his work was praised in Europe as early as 1910, it was not until 1949 that he received an award from American Institute of Architects.