Frank Lloyd Wright: The Brilliant Mind of an Architect

Monica DanforthHUM 2250

Professor Jones29 March 2011

Born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center,

Wisconsin William and Anna Wright

Biography

Dropped out of high school Parents divorced=distant relationship with

father Creativity started with Froebel toys invented

by Friedrich Froebel

Biography

Early Beginnings

Compared goals of an architect to musician

Rhythm and balance “Form becomes

Feeling” Opened printing

press Started with

mechanical drawings of various structures

$35 a month Architecture degree

at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Architecture not popular at the time

Dropped out of college and moved to Chicago

Chicago 1887

Large population Center of shipping

and railways Destroyed in the

Great Fire of 1871 Created more

opportunities for Wright

Chicago School

The Start of a Certain Style

First House

ModernismUnity Temple

Galesburg Country Homes

Guggenheim Museum

Millard House

Modernism• The Larkin Building• One of Wright’s

first industrial works• Intended to give

workers a more human working environment

Fallingwater

HOW IT WAS BUILThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CVKU3ErrGM