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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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Quote

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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.

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