FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

PRESENTED BY:
FARIHA SAEED

Frank Lloyd Wright the most influential architect of
modern architecture.
He designed about 1,000 structures, some 400 of
which were built.
He described his "organic architecture" as one that
"proceeds, persists, creates, according to the nature of
man and his circumstances as they both change."
As a pioneer whose ideas were well ahead of his time,
Wright had to fight for acceptance of every new design.
He was a master builder, a rebel and a worshipper of
nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Childhood To Teen
Frank Lloyd Wright was more than an architect he was an
artist.
Wright was born in southwestern Wisconsin, on June 8,
1867.
His father, a musician and a preacher and his mother was
was a teacher.
There are rumors that state that her mother placed
pictures of great buildings in Franks nursery as part of
training him up from the earliest possible moment as an
architect.
As a kid, Frank spent some time of his life at the farm that
his uncles owned.

Childhood To Teen
Young Adult To Adult
Wright studied civil engineering at the University of
Wisconsin.
After that he moved to Chicago to work in the architectural
firm of J. Lyman Silsbee, he worked for only a year.
He was then hired as a draft man in the firm of Adler and
Sullivan. Wright eventually became the chief draftsman, and
also the man in charge of the companys residential design.
Wright eventually started to develop his own architectural
ideas.
In 1889 he married his first wife, Catherine Tobin. He
started to design houses by himself; he called them
bootlegged.
Personal Style And Concepts
FLW was more than a building designer; he used
geometry in a wonderful way.
Wright practiced organic architecture, an architecture that
evolves naturally out of the context, the relationship
between the site and the building and the needs of the
client.
He was a man that wanted to overcome the limits. No one
thought of a curved building until he drew it. They probably
thought it was a crazy idea, until it was there.
Bootlegged Houses
The triple of houses on Chicago Avenue
complexity of the masses
geometric simplification", is seen in the
true masses of these houses
prominence of the central fire place
"destruction of the box" open floor plans
His 30s
The bootlegged houses made his start in his own style.
This style later evolved and became some of his greatest
work.
Wright made his own firm in 1893.
He first worked out of the Schiller building, which was
designed by Adler and Sullivan.
After the Schiller, he started to work out of a studio, which
was build onto his home.
1st Phase of His Work
Between 1893 and 1901, 49 buildings designed by Wright
were built.
During this period he began to develop his ideas, which
would soon come together in his Prairie House concept.
Into 1909, he developed and refined the prairie style.
Frank Lloyd Wright founded the prairie school of
architecture.
his life is also considered as part of the Art and craft
movement.

Prairie House
Frank Lloyd Wright revolutionized
the American home when he
began to design "Prairie" style
houses with
low horizontal lines
open interior spaces.
"The horizontal line is the line of
domesticity."
spread upon the ground.
2nd Phase of His Work
During the period from 1914-1932, a time of
personal turmoil and change.
Architectural designs during this period included
the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (a large and complex
design that required much time in Japan to oversee
it).
concrete California residences. Few commissions
were completed toward the end of this period.
Wright did lecture and publish frequently, with
books including An Autobiography in 1932.

Imperial Hotel in Tokyo
Wright designed the building
as a hybrid of Japanese and
Western architecture.
extensive decorative scheme
skilled carvers of stone
The complex is also strikingly
symmetrical.
Building symbolize Japans
relation to the West. To that
end.
California Residences
The Creator's Words
"In my work the idea of plasticity
may now be seen as the
element of continuity....Classical
architecture was all
fixation...now...let walls, ceiling,
floors become seen as
component parts of each other,
their surfaces flowing into each
other....Here...principle entered
into building as the new esthetic
continuity...the new reality that
is space instead of matter."
Taliesin Fellowship
The Taliesin Fellowship was founded in 1932, with thirty
apprentices who came to live and learn under Mr. Wright.
An Autobiography served as an advertisement, inspiring many
who read it to seek him out.
The architect's output became more organized and prolific,
with help of the numerous apprentices who assisted in design
detail and site supervision.
His most famous work, Fallingwater, was designed in 1936.
The fellowship was expanded as Taliesin West was built in
Arizona as a winter location for the school.
The Taliesin Associated Architects the Frank Lloyd Wright
School of Architecture, and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
are living legacies of what Mr. Wright founded in 1932.
Fallingwater House
it was voted "the best all-time work of American
architecture.
It is a supreme example of Frank Lloyd
Wright's concept of organic architecture,
It promotes harmony between man and nature
through design so well integrated with its site
that buildings, furnishings, and surroundings
become part of a it.
Wright embraced modern technology to
achieve this.
3rd Phase of His Work
Few buildings were produced during the war
years.
This post-war period to the end of Wright's life
was the most productive.
He received 270 house commissions, and
designed and built
Price Tower skyscraper,
Guggenheim Museum,
Marin County Civic Center.
Guggenheim Museum
Plasticity of organic forms in
architecture.
Gentle slop of continuous
ramp.
Galleries are divided like the
members in citrus fruits
Unique possibility of seeing
several bays
Spiral design recalled shells,
with continuous spaces
flowing freely one into
another.
Price Tower skyscraper
Wright had two major difficulties of
a philosophical sort in designing a
skyscraper
First, as a believer in an
architecture close to nature, he had
a hard time justifying a tall
Second, his obsession with the twin
concepts of continuity and plasticity
He solved this dilemma in a
characteristic fashion, by going to
the one source in nature which did
suggest a way of building a tall
structure: the form of a tree.
Marin County Civic Center
The Marin County Civic
Center was not only his
last major design project
but also the only
government facility of his
design that was ever built.
On April 28, 1958,
Wrights plan for the Civic
Center was approved.
Marin County Civic
Center to completion after
his death.
End of his life

Wright never retired; he died on April 9, 1959 at the age
of ninety-two in Arizona. He was interred at the graveyard
at Unity Chapel (which is considered to be his first
building) at Taliesin in Wisconsin.
In 1985, Olgivanna Wright passed away, and one of her
wishes was to have Frank Lloyd Wright's remains
cremated and the ashes placed next to hers at Taliesin
West. Amid much controversy, this was done. The
epitaph at his Wisconsin grave site reads: "Love of an
idea, is the love of God"
Frank Lloyd Wright Quotations On
art and architecture

"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun"
"The mother art is architecture. Without architecture of our
own we have no soul of our own civilization"
"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."
"Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form
and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union"
"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man.
There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."

Conclusion
Frank Lloyd Wright, an ingenious man, an architect, an
artist, and a mathematician. FLW was more than a
building designer; he used geometry in a way I never
thought possible. He was a man that wanted to overcome
the limits. No one thought of a curved building until he
drew it. They probably thought it was a crazy idea, until it
was there.
Frank Lloyd Wright was more than an architect he was an
artist. He was the creator of a new era of architecture.
FLW was considered one of the best architects of his
time and all time.