Frank Lloyd's Prairie And Usonian Style
Few architects in the 1900s compare to Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 -- April 9, 1959) who was also an interior designer and writer. Throughout his lifetime, Wright was credited with over a thousand designs and over half of these constructed. Wright who was a famous lover of organic architecture was in the forefront of the Prairie School architectural movement and invented the Usonian home model. Many office buildings, schools and even museums were designed with the unique style of Prairie School Architecture by him (Prairie School Architecture).
Wright was born in 1867 into the family of William Carey Wright (1825 -- 1904) and Anna Lloyd Jones (1838 -- 1923) who resided in the agricultural settlement of Richland Centre, Wisconsin. Both of his parents were teachers although his father was politically and legally inclined. When Wright came of age, he travelled to Chicago -which was in the midst of a revival after the Great Chicago fire incident of 1871- in search of a job. In a short while, he got employed as a designer in a design firm owned by Joseph Lyman Silsbee. While there, he met a fellow designer, George G. Elmslie, who would later be converted to Prairie style architecture by Wright. Due to a clash of interest, Wright left Silsbee and joined the Adler & Sullivan Company in less than a year. Sullivan admired the qualities of Wright and they struck up a good relationship. Wright took advantage of this rapport to persuade Sullivan to employ his friend Elmslie and they both shared Wright's new hard-earned office space. Wright's career experienced continual...
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