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WRIGHTT H E L I F E A N D W O R K S
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CONTENT
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Biography
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Johnson Wax Tower
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Quote
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Falling Water
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The Guggenheim
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INTRODUCTION
Frank Lloyd Wright is widely considered as
one of the greatest American architects of alltime. He introduced the concept of Organicarchitecture and designed such landmarksas the Fallingwater and the Guggenheim
Museum of Art. After a turbulent personal lifehis work is all that remains, with an extensivenumber of his architecture still standing andmany more plans that were never realised his
ideologies and believes live on through his
work. This book takes a look in to some ofhis most famous works, including some of hismost famous quotes ad teachings.
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FRANK LLOYD
WRIGHTFrank Lloyd Wright (born Frank LincolnWright, June 8, 1867 April 9, 1959) was anAmerican architect, interior designer, writerand educator, who designed more than
1000 structures and completed 532 works.Wright believed in designing structureswhich were in harmony with humanity and itsenvironment, a philosophy he called organicarchitecture. This philosophy was best
exemplified by his design for Fallingwater(1935), which has been called the best all-time work of American architecture. Wrightwas a leader of the Prairie School movement
of architecture and developed the conceptof the Usonian home, his unique vision forurban planning in the United States. His workincludes original and innovative examplesof many different building types, including
offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers,hotels, and museums. Wright also designedmany of the interior elements of hisbuildings, such as the furniture and stained
glass. Wright authored 20 books and manyarticles and was a popular lecturer in theUnited States and in Europe. His colorfulpersonal life often made headlines, mostnotably for the 1914 fire and murders at his
Taliesin studio. Already well known during hislifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 bythe American Institute of Architects as the
greatest American architect of all time.
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JOHNSON
WA X TOWER
The Johnson Wax Headquarters were set
in an industrial zone and Wright decided tocreate a sealed environment lit from above,
The building features Wrights interpretation
of the streamlined Art Moderne style popular
in the 1930s. In a break with Wrights earlier
Prairie School structures, the building features
many curvilinear forms and subsequently
required over 200 different curved Cherokee
red bricks to create the sweeping curves of
the interior and exterior. The mortar betweenthe bricks is raked in traditional Wright-style
to accentuate the horizontality of the building.
The warm, reddish hue of the bricks was used
in the polished concrete oor slab as well; the
white stone trim and white dendriform columns
create a subtle yet striking contrast. All of the
furniture, manufactured by Steelcase, was
designed for the building by Wright and it
mirrored many of the buildings unique design
features.
Racine, Wisconsin US
1944-1950
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GUGGENHEIM
MUSEUM
New York City, New York, US
1955-1959
The Guggenheim museums proximity toCentral Park was key; as close to nature
as one gets in New York, the park afforded
relief from the noise and congestion of thecity. Nature not only provided the museum
with a respite from New Yorks distractionsbut also lent it inspiration. The GuggenheimMuseum is an embodiment of Wrights
attempts to render the inherent plasticity oforganic forms in architecture. His inverted
ziggurat (a stepped or winding pyramidal
temple of Babylonian origin) dispensedwith the conventional approach to museum
design, which led visitors through a series
of interconnected rooms and forced themto retrace their steps when exiting. Instead,
Wright whisked people to the top of the
building via elevator, and led them downwardat a leisurely pace on the gentle slope of a
continuous ramp. The galleries were divided
like the membranes in citrus fruit, with self-contained yet interdependent sections.
The open rotunda afforded viewers theunique possibility of seeing several bays ofwork on different levels simultaneously. The
spiral design recalled a nautilus shell, withcontinuous spaces flowing freely one into
another.