ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
"Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually
conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the
idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind."
"The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the
landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built."
"My building will last at least 300 years.
" No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging
to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1867~1959)
Frank Lloyd Wright was born at Frank Lincoln Wright in Richland
Center in southwestern Wisconsin, on June 8, 1867. He is one of the most universally
acclaimed and admired of all American architects, and his name is known worldwide to
laymen as well as to architects and historians.
English: Frank Lloyd Wright home in Oak Park, Illi...
Photo c by Jeff Dean.
Robie House (designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), Chic...Wright's buildings and theories seem to
have had only a slight impact on the evolution of 20the-century architecture. His early
influences were his clergyman father's playing of Bach and Beethoven and his mother's
gift of geometric blocks. Wright spent many summers of his youth in Spring Green, he
came to view architecture as subject to the same rules that govern organic growth. Like,
plants buildings should "grow out of the soil and be a part of it." He entered the
University of Wisconsin at 15 as a special student, studying engineering because the
school had no course in architecture.
In 1887, at the age of twenty, Frank Lloyd Wright, broke from the
comfort of his childhood in Wisconsin and moved to Chicago. With education in
Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Wright found a job as a draftsman in...