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 was an American architect who lived from 1867 to 1959 and became one of the most influential figures in modern architecture. His innovative designs and buildings shaped how people think about the relationship between structures and their natural surroundings, making him a central figure in architectural history.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1867
Died: 1959
Works: 298

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

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Listeners: 61
Total plays: 1,263

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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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Image: Frank Lloyd Wright portrait.jpg

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Commons category: Frank Lloyd Wright
date of birth: 1867-06-08
date of death: 1959-04-09
birth name: Franklin Lincoln Wright
Commons gallery: Frank Lloyd Wright
Commons Creator page: Frank Lloyd Wright
name in native language: Frank Lloyd Wright
described at URL: arch-pavouk.cz/index.php/architekti/1450-wright-frank-lloyd
start of work period: 1893-01-01
end of work period: 1959-01-01

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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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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.