FRANK LLOYD

WRIGHT
BARROZO, PATRICK
VILLAR, IRENE
AGUILAR, GEONARD

THEORY

According to Wright's organic theory,

all components of the building
should appear unified, as though
they belong together. Nothing
should be attached to it without
considering the effect on the
whole.To unify the house to its site,
Wright often used large expanses of
glass to blur the boundary between the
indoors and outdoors.

DICTUM

Above all else, Wrights vision served

beauty. When he quibbled with Louis
Sullivans dictum that form follows
function, suggesting instead that
form and function are one, he
was in fact revealing that when push
came to shove his own true passion was
form
more
than
function.

PHILOSOPHY

Wright
believed
in
designing
structures that were in harmony
with humanity and its environment,
a philosophy he calledorganic
architecture. This philosophy was best
exemplified
byFallingwater(1935),
which has been called "the best all-time
work of American architecture".

BIOGRAPHY

Frank
LloydWright(bornFrankLincoln
Wright, June 8, 1867 April 9, 1959)

American architect, interior designer, writer,

and educator, who designed more than 1,000
structures, 532 of which were completed.

Leader of thePrairie Schoolmovement of

architecture and developed the concept of
theUsonianhome, his unique vision for urban
planning in the United States.

Frank LloydWright was an architect for about

70 years.
Reconstruction of a Usonian Home, a
unique architectural plan developed
by Frank Lloyd Wright, in near
completion

Built his famous

Wisconsin.

home,

Taliesin,

in

Spring

Green,

Young Wright spent much time playing with the blocks.

These were geometrically shaped and could be assembled
in various combinations to form three-dimensional
compositions
"For several years I sat at the little Kindergarten tabletop... and played... with the cube, the sphere and the
trianglethese smooth wooden maple blocks... All are in
my fingers to this day...

Many of his buildings are notable for their geometrical

clarity.

The Taliesin or the the shining brow

, is one of the most acclaimed works
of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Worked for architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee.

Wright drafted the construction of his first building, the

Lloyd-Jones family chapel, also known as Unity Chapel.

He went to work for the firm of Adler and Sullivan,

directly under Louis Sullivan.

Wright met and fell in love with Catherine Tobin

Wright adapted Sullivan's maxim "Form Follows

Function" to his own revised theory of "Form and
Function Are One.

It was Sullivan's belief that American Architecture

should be based on American function, not European
traditions, a theory which Wright later developed further.

1893, Sullivan and Wright ended their business

relationship.

Wright's early houses mimic horizontal plane, with

no basements or attics. Built with natural
materials and never painted, Wright utilized lowpitched rooflines with deep overhangs and
uninterrupted walls of windows to merge the
horizontal homes into their environments. He
added large stone or brick fireplaces in the homes'
heart, and made the rooms open to one another.

An insane servant tragically murdered his second

love Mamah Borthwick Cheney and six others, and
then set fire to Taliesin.

In 1915, Wright was commissioned to design

the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

It was during this time that Wright began to

develop and refine his architectural and
sociological philosophies. Because Wright
disliked the urban environment, his buildings
also developed a style quite different from other
architects of the time.

In 1932, Wright opened Taliesin up as an

architectural fellowship where young students
could pay to work with and learn from him.
Thirty apprentices came to live with him at
Taliesin.

He married and separated from Miriam Noel

and met his third wife, Olivanna Milanoff. The
two lived happily at Taliesin for five years and
raised a child there.

In 1937, Wright moved his family and fellowship

to Phoenix, Arizona where he built Taliesin West
and spent the last twenty years of his life.

Both Taliesin and Taliesin West were continuous

living experiences for Wright as they constantly
remained under construction.

had created 1,141 designs, of which 532 were

completed.

Wright is widely considered the greatest

architect of the 20th century, and the greatest
American architect of all time.

His last work is the Guggenheim Museum in

New York City.
"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."

NOTABLE WORKS OF
WRIGHT
Fallingwater or Kauffman Residence (Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania)

The Fallingwater stands as one of Wright's

greatest masterpieces both for its dynamism
and for its integration with the striking natural
surroundings.

Fallingwater has been described as an

architecturaltour de forceof Wright's organic
philosophy.

Wright's passion forJapanese architecturewas

strongly reflected in the design of Fallingwater,
particularly in the importance of
interpenetrating exterior and interior spaces
and the strong emphasis placed on harmony
between man and nature.

Fallingwater is marked by a series of

cantilevered balconies and terraces constructed
atop a waterfall in rural southwestern
Pennsylvania.

considered one of the most beautiful homes

ever built.

Usonian Houses

Herbert Jacobs House is considered by most to

be the first Usonian home.

Wright designed an L-shaped structure with an

open floor plan and two bedrooms.

Many Usonian Houses are built during the time

of Frank Lloyd Wright. This type of planning is
developed by Wright and he claimed it as the
American way of building houses and Usonian
Houses also basically follows his philosophy of
creating harmony and balance between human
and nature.

The Guggenheim Museum in

New York City

In 1943, Wright began a project that consumed

the last 16 years of his lifedesigning the
Guggenheim Museum of modern and
contemporary art in New York City.

In 1943, Wright began a project that consumed

the last 16 years of his lifedesigning the
Guggenheim Museum of modern and
contemporary art in New York City.

He utilized natural materials, skylights and walls

of windows to embrace the natural environment
during the construction of the museum.

He built the structure that mimicked an oculus.

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CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST AMERICAN

ARCHITECT OF ALL TIME

CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST AMERICAN

ARCHITECT OF ALL TIME

CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST

RESIDENTIAL HOUSES

CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST AMERICAN

ARCHITECT OF ALL TIME

CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST

RESIDENTIAL HOUSES

THE LAST WORK OF FRANK LLOYD WEIGHT

BEFORE HE DIED

CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST AMERICAN

ARCHITECT OF ALL TIME

CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST

RESIDENTIAL HOUSES

THE LAST WORK OF FRANK LLOYD WEIGHT

BEFORE HE DIED

CONCEPT OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES DEVLOPED

BY WRIGHT

CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST AMERICAN

ARCHITECT OF ALL TIME

CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST

RESIDENTIAL HOUSES

THE LAST WORK OF FRANK LLOYD WEIGHT

BEFORE HE DIED

CONCEPT OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES DEVLOPED

BY WRIGHT

WRIGHT WORKS UNDER ___________ AFTER HE

WORKED FOR Joseph Lyman Silsbee.

CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST AMERICAN

ARCHITECT OF ALL TIME

CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST RESIDENTIAL

HOUSES

THE LAST WORK OF FRANK LLOYD WEIGHT

BEFORE HE DIED

CONCEPT OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES DEVLOPED BY

WRIGHT

WRIGHT WORKS UNDER ___________ AFTER HE

WORKED FOR Joseph Lyman Silsbee.

WRIGHT BUILT THIS FAMOUS HOUSE IN Spring

Green, Wisconsin.

CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST AMERICAN ARCHITECT

OF ALL TIME

CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST RESIDENTIAL

HOUSES

THE LAST WORK OF FRANK LLOYD WEIGHT BEFORE HE

DIED

CONCEPT OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES DEVLOPED BY

WRIGHT

WRIGHT WORKS UNDER ___________ AFTER HE WORKED

FOR Joseph Lyman Silsbee.

WRIGHT BUILT THIS FAMOUS HOUSE IN Spring Green,

Wisconsin.

ANOTHER NAME OF FALLINGWATERS

CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST AMERICAN ARCHITECT OF

ALL TIME

CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST RESIDENTIAL HOUSES

THE LAST WORK OF FRANK LLOYD WEIGHT BEFORE HE

DIED

CONCEPT OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES DEVLOPED BY

WRIGHT

WRIGHT WORKS UNDER ___________ AFTER HE WORKED

FOR Joseph Lyman Silsbee.

WRIGHT BUILT THIS FAMOUS HOUSE IN Spring Green,

Wisconsin.

ANOTHER NAME OF FALLINGWATERS

THE BUILDING MADE BY WRIGHT IN TOKYO

CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST AMERICAN ARCHITECT OF

ALL TIME

CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST RESIDENTIAL HOUSES

THE LAST WORK OF FRANK LLOYD WEIGHT BEFORE HE DIED

CONCEPT OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES DEVLOPED BY WRIGHT

WRIGHT WORKS UNDER ___________ AFTER HE WORKED

FOR Joseph Lyman Silsbee.

WRIGHT BUILT THIS FAMOUS HOUSE IN Spring Green,

Wisconsin.

ANOTHER NAME OF FALLINGWATERS

THE BUILDING MADE BY WRIGHT IN TOKYO

YOUNG WRIGHT SPENT MUCH TIME PLAYING WITH THESE

CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST AMERICAN ARCHITECT OF

ALL TIME

CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE BEST RESIDENTIAL HOUSES

THE LAST WORK OF FRANK LLOYD WEIGHT BEFORE HE DIED

CONCEPT OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES DEVLOPED BY WRIGHT

WRIGHT WORKS UNDER ___________ AFTER HE WORKED

FOR Joseph Lyman Silsbee.

WRIGHT BUILT THIS FAMOUS HOUSE IN Spring Green,

Wisconsin.

ANOTHER NAME OF FALLINGWATERS

THE BUILDING MADE BY WRIGHT IN TOKYO

YOUNG WRIGHT SPENT MUCH TIME PLAYING WITH THESE

OTHER NAME FOR TALIESIN