Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

full name?

Richland Center, Wisconsin

Born in…

June 8, 1867

Born on…

William Carey Wright; Anna Lloyd Jones

son of _______________ a preacher and a musician, and ____________, a teacher whose large Welsh family had settled the valley area near Spring Green, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin; 1878

His early childhood was nomadic as his father traveled from one ministry position to another in Rhode Island, Iowa, and Massachusetts, before settling in _________, in _ _____.

1885

Wright’s parents divorced in ______, making already challenging financial circumstances even more challenging.

University of Wisconsin’s department of engineering

To help support the family, 18-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright worked for the dean of the _______________ while also studying at the university. But, he knew he wanted to be an architect.

Adler and Sullivan; Louis Sullivan

In 1887, he left Madison for Chicago, where he found work with two different firms before being hired by the prestigious partnership of _________, working directly under ________ for six years.

Prairie Style

a long, low, open plan structure that eschewed the typical high, straight-sided box in order to emphasize the horizontal line of the prairie and domesticity

Usonian

were a simplified approach to residential construction that reflected both economic realities and changing social trends.

Robie House

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio

S. C. Johnson Wax Headquarters

Guggenheim Museum

Falling Water

“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.”

Frank Wright; quote on a good building

“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.”

Frank Wright; quote on hill and houses