Frank Lloyd Wright - The Greatest Architect of

1959: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, 91, just finished designing the Guggiehiem Museum set for opening in 1960. Born June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Mother, a teacher from a large Welsh family who had settled in Spring Green, Wisconsin, where Wright later built his famous home, Taliesin. His father, was a preacher and a musician. In 1885, the year Wright graduated from public high school in Madison, his parents divorced and his father moved away, never to be heard from again. That year, Wright enrolled at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to study civil engineering; in order to pay his tuition and help support his family, he worked for the dean of the engineering department and assisted the acclaimed architect Silsbee with the construction of the Unity Chapel. The experience convinced Wright that he wanted to become an architect, and in 1887 he dropped out of school to go to work for Silsbee in Chicago. Widely considered the greatest architect of the 20th century and the greatest American architect of all time, he perfected a distinctly American style of architecture that emphasized simplicity and natural beauty in contrast to the elaborate and ornate architecture that had prevailed in Europe. With seemingly superhuman energy and persistence, Wright designed more than 1, 100 buildings during his lifetime, nearly one-third of which came during his last decade. Wright lives thru beautiful buildings he designed, as well as through the powerful and enduring idea that guided all of his work that buildings should serve to honor and enhance the natural beauty surrounding them. I would like to have a free architecture, Wright wrote. Architecture that belonged where you see it standing and is a grace to the landscape instead of a disgrace

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