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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Brilliant Mind of an Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Brilliant Mind of an Architect. Monica Danforth HUM 2250 Professor Jones 29 March 2011. Biography. Born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin William and Anna Wright. Biography. Dropped out of high school Parents divorced=distant relationship with father

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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Brilliant Mind of an Architect

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  1. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Brilliant Mind of an Architect Monica Danforth HUM 2250 Professor Jones 29 March 2011

  2. Biography • Born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin • William and Anna Wright

  3. Biography • Dropped out of high school • Parents divorced=distant relationship with father • Creativity started with Froebel toys invented by Friedrich Froebel

  4. 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

  5. Chicago 1887 • Large population • Center of shipping and railways • Destroyed in the Great Fire of 1871 • Created more opportunities for Wright

  6. Chicago School

  7. The Start of a Certain Style

  8. First House

  9. Modernism Unity Temple

  10. Galesburg Country Homes

  11. Guggenheim Museum

  12. Millard House

  13. Modernism • The Larkin Building • One of Wright’s first industrial works • Intended to give workers a more human working environment

  14. Fallingwater

  15. How it was built • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CVKU3ErrGM

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