Simply the Greatest Artist - Frank Lloyd Wright

Called “Simply the Greatest Artist”, Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most original American designers during the 20^th century. His building and his ideas have affected of how offices and homes today are built and designed. This reminds me of when I’m on the bus on my way to school or vice versa and pass through houses that remind me of Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright has a unique style in which he developed through various cultures. Wright believed that good design make people more aware and respect their surroundings and nature.

"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

Frank Lloyd Wright designed office buildings, houses, neighbourhoods, public buildings, churches and museums we in all Wright designed about 800 buildings From the 380 buildings that were built, nowadays you can still find 280 of them which are still standing.

From different buildings Wright has designed, his most famous ones are houses. He wanted to design houses that could be built cheaply made and with the use of cheap materials. During the 1920s, he started to create a new system that could build affordable homes using concrete blocks.

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Oak Park

Frank Lloyd Wright's own house in Arizon, Taliesin

Jacobs House by Frank Lloyd Wright

Taliesin West House

The Frederic C. Robie House by Frank Lloyd Wright

Walter H. Gale House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

Guggenheim Museum New York

Many of Wright’s master pieces gained their look and inspiration from its natural surroundings as Frank Lloyd Wright believed that architecture should fit in its natural surroundings. Wright’s houses are known for being long, horizontally and flat. They are called “prairie” houses.

Wright’s most successful and striking house is that of Falling water, a home in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. Its structure is really well combined with the nature around it. The rectangular sections that make up this house are built over a running stream and waterfall.

Falling Water

Falling Water Details

Wright has influenced American architecture in a way that will always be seen. One can see his influence in one way or another. The largest area of influence has been the American homes. Wright believed that America should have its own architecture and that it should not be influenced by European styles. This belief led him to develop the idea of open floor plans. Nowadays it’s the contrary of that America should not be influenced by European styles; it is that all around the world has been influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright’s organic architecture.

References:

• About, 2014. Industrial Design [online] available at: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blindustrial_design.htm

• Minnesota, 2014. Frank Lloyd Wright: One of the greatest, and most controversial [online] available at: http://www.mprnews.org/story/2007/01/19/flwrightprofile

• Freshome, 2014. 10 Great Architectural Lessons from Frank Lloyd Wright [image online] available at: http://freshome.com/2012/09/03/10-great-architectural-lessons-from-frank-lloyd-wright/