Frank Lloyd Wright
... If so, then the way you live is being directly influenced by Frank Lloyd Wrights innovations in residential architecture. "Drawing inspiration from his native midwestern prairie, he coaxed Americans out of their boxlike houses and into wide-open living spaces that suited the American lifestyle" (Frank Lloyd Wright, 31) He contributed the Prairie and Usonian houses to the vernacular of American residential design, and elements of his designs can be found in a large proportion of homes today. While most of his designs were single-family homes, his varied output also includes houses of worship, skyscrapers, resorts, museums, government offices, gas stations, bridges, and other masterpieces showing the diversity of Frank Lloyd Wrights talent. Frank Lloyd Wrights views on architectural space, ornamentation, and relationship to site, and concerning the place of architecture in art, life and philosophy have inspired generations of architects and artists all over the world. Frank Lloyd Wright was born as Frank Lincoln Wright in Richland Center, Wisconsin, on June 8, 1867. His father, William Carey Wright, was a musician and a preacher. His mother, Anna Lloyd-Jones was a teacher. Wright briefly studied civil engineering at the University Of Wisconsin in Madison, after which he moved to Chicago to work for a year in the architectural firm of J. ... Wright eventually became the chief draftsman, and also the man in charge of the firms residential designs. Under Sullivan, whom Wright called "Lieber Meister" (beloved master), Wright began to develop his own architectural ideas. ... Wright was fired from the firm for moonlighting on his own designs. ... Wright started his own firm in 1893 after being fired from Adler and Sullivan, first working out of the Schiller Building and then out of a studio built onto his own home in Oak Park, an affluent suburb of Chicago. Between 1893 and 1901, 49 buildings designed by Wright were built. ... During the period from 1914-1932, a time of personal turmoil and change, Wright rebuilt Taliesin after the tragic death of his lover Ms. ... Wright. ... Wright never retired; he died on April 9, 1959 at the age of ninety-two in Arizona.