Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Famous Architect

Index:

01 Biographies

02 Criterion of its architecture

03 Important Works

Biography :

IBIOGRAPHY:

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was born on the June 8, 1867 in Richard Center a U.S state of Winconsin ( USA), and died on the April 9, 1959 in Phoenix a U.S state of Arizona.

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American Architect, Interior Designer, Writer and Educator, he designed more than a 1.000 structures, of which 532 were completed.

CRITERION OF ITS ARCHITECTURE

Wright ¨s desing was the design of structures that were in harmony with humanity and the environment around them, a philosophy also known as organic architecture.

In 2019, 8 works by Wright were declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco.

ICRITERION OF ITS ARCHITECTURE

Wright rejects the existing criterion that interior spaces are closed and isolated rooms and that is which each room or room opens to ochers, whith which it archives a great visual transparency and a feeling of spaciousness and openness.

In the years 1900 and 1910, Wrigth wrote several books and gave some lectures.

Important Works:

The Imperial Hotel in Tokio

The Imperial Hotel in Tokio, designed together with the architect Antonin Raymon, this hotel had a new method of contruction resistant to earthquakes.

Antonin Raymon

Architect

SOLOMON GUGGENHEIN MUSEUM

Solomon Guggenhein Museum was created in 1937 it was conceived as a " temple of the spirit "and in 2019 the building was deceared a World Heritage Site by Unesco.

TALIELIN WEST

Talielin West was created from 1938 to 1959, named after the house of winter, in the middle of the Phoenix desert.

THE WATERFALL HOUSE

The waterfall house is one of his most important projects, his masterpiece, built between 1936 and 1939 on a waterfall of the Bear Run River, in Pennsylvania Country ( United States) and now futions as a museum.

UNITY TEMPLE

Unity Temple is one of the most important buildings and has been called " The first building in the world", now converted into a universalist Unitarian church in Oak Park ( Illinois) it was built between 1905 and 1908. In 2019 Unity Temple was declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco.

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