Frank Lloyd Wright

Also known as Frank Lincoln Wright, F. L. Wright, Frank Lloyd Lincoln Wright, Frank Lloid Rait, Frank Luyd Rayt, Lloyd Wright Frank, FLW

American architect (1867-1959)

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Frank Lloyd Wright, born Franklin Lincoln Wright in 1867 in Richland Center, was an American architect, urban planner, writer, and designer. He studied under Louis Sullivan and later worked for The New School. Wright was a proponent of organic architecture, describing it as the modern ideal. His notable works include Fallingwater, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, and the development of Prairie School architecture.

Wright was a citizen of the United States and adhered to Unitarianism. He had two children, John Lloyd Wright and Lloyd Wright. He received the Royal Gold Medal for his contributions to the field. Wright died in Phoenix in 1959. He is described by sources such as UbuWeb and has been the subject of numerous publications, including *Sixty years of living architecture* and *The world of Frank Lloyd Wright*.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1867
Died: 1959
Works: 298

Top works

Frank Lloyd Wright in Manchester
Architettura organica
Sixty years of living architecture
The world of Frank Lloyd Wright
The ultimate Frank Lloyd Wright

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1867
Active to: 1959

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 61
Total plays: 1,263

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
· 2012 · cited 29,203x
Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,289x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,617x
Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint
· 1988 · cited 16,705x
Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,051x

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Quotes

“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”
“So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.”
“I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.”
“A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”
“Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

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Works in European collections

3 objects attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and mentoring hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".

Wright was a pioneer of what came to be called the Prairie School movement of architecture and also developed the concept of the Usonian home within Broadacre City, his vision for urban planning in the United States. Wright also designed original and innovative offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, museums, and other commercial projects. Wright-designed interior elements (including leaded glass windows, floors, furniture and even tableware) were integrated into these structures. He wrote several books and numerous articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time". In 2019, a selection of his work became a listed World Heritage Site under the name The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

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