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Race	Number	Percentage
African American Students	76	23
Asian Students	2	1
Hispanic Students	43	13
Native American Students	25	8
Pacific Islander Students	3	1
White Students	132	40
Multi-racial Students	49	15
Unspecified Students	0	0

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Frank Lloyd Wright: photos of houses and biography of the architect

On June 8, 1867, the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born. The father of organic architecture and prairie style created more than 500 projects throughout his career, and about 300 of them we can see, visit and even purchase. We recall the difficult path to fame and the best projects of America’s chief architect.

History

Frank Lloyd Wright was born June 8, 1867 in the small town of Richland Center, Wisconsin. While studying engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Wright had to earn extra money to help his mother and sisters. Never finished university, at 19In 1987, he left for Chicago, where he began his architectural career as an “apprentice” – first with Joseph Lyman Silsby, and then with the “father of skyscrapers” modernist architect Louis Sullivan, who became a real master for the young Wright.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Under Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright worked for six years. In 1889, the master signed a five-year contract with his apprentice to build himself a small house in suburban Chicago’s Oak Park and start building a family with his first wife, Katherine Lee Tobin. In order to provide for his family, Wright, who did not like to deny himself fashionable suits and expensive cars, has to take third-party orders and carry them out in parallel with his work in an architectural studio. When Sullivan discovered this (quite by accident, seeing a mansion in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright, which was then difficult to confuse with something a few blocks from his Kenwood home), he canceled the contract with Wright and he had to leave.

Sketch for “House over the waterfall”, pencil, 1934-1937.

Perhaps this twist of fate was the turning point in Frank Lloyd Wright’s career, as he finally had the opportunity to create his own designs and develop the prairie style he proclaimed. prairie consisted of obligatory low-rise houses, flat roofs, the absence of attics and basements, strip glazing – and, in general, the complete dissolution of the house on the surface of the earth. This style began to manifest itself most clearly from 1900s: Wright builds dozens of private homes, as well as public buildings, such as the Unitarian Church in Oak Park (Frank Lloyd Wright, like his entire family, was a staunch Unitarian all his life). This church was later recognized as one of the world’s first examples of modernism.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

One of the most famous houses of this period was the Robie House, built in 1906. The long horizontal house, consisting of two rectangular volumes lying on top of each other, became the ultimate manifesto of prairie style, and later a national historic landmark. At the same time, a series of upheavals take place in the personal life of Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1909, Wright left the family for the wife of one of his clients, Mama Borthwick Cheney. Together they travel around Europe, where Wright publishes his first publications – collections of his works. Upon his return to the United States, Wright begins to build his abode and studio – Taliesin – where he could hide from the notoriety that haunted him from Oak Park. Wright resumes architectural practice in a new location, receives large orders for public spaces. At 1914 CE Mama Cheni and her two children die tragically in Taliesin at the hands of a mad worker who sets the house on fire and kills Cheni, the children and four other people. Frank Lloyd Wright took this event hard and subsequently rebuilt the half-burnt Taliesin in memory of his beloved.

Drawing of March Balloons, 1955. Wright adapted his sketches for the covers of Liberty magazine from 1926-1928 to fit the design. The covers were never released, and the architect later used this drawing to design carpets and other items.

For a while, he was distracted from the tragedy by immersing himself in work on the Imperial Hotel in Japan, and returned to the United States only in 1922. For several years he settled in Los Angeles, where architectural practice did not bring proper income, but there he created his famous Ennis House, where he first applied innovative technologies in the use of “textile” concrete blocks. Textile Wright called them because he proposed stringing cubic blocks, hollow inside, on reinforcing rods, as on transverse threads in weaving fabric.So the surface of the wall looked aesthetically – like a single decorative plane.Wright covered the outer sides of the blocks with ethnic them an ornament.

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

A new stage in Wright’s career was marked by his return to Taliesin and an alliance with Olga (Olgivanna) Lazovic at 1928, with whom they organized the Taliesin Fellowship internship program. At the same time, Wright’s important program works “Autobiography” and “Vanishing City”, which we wrote about here, are being released. In 1936, Wright created one of his most famous projects, the Falls House for Edgar Kaufman, and began a series of “Usonian” houses in which he formulated his vision of true American architecture. The style appears in response to the rampant financial crisis of 1929 and is positioned as affordable housing for Americans. Wright designs more than 50 simple houses, the architecture of which reflects economic realities and an actively changing social environment: accessible, comfortable and beautiful.

Sketch of the Unity Church.

Receives a commission for one of his major creations, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, in 1943. It took 16 years to create the museum, and its opening took place in the year of Wright’s death, who did not live two months to 92 years old In his entire career, Frank Lloyd Wright built the only skyscraper, the Price Tower in Oklahoma, which opened to the public in 1956.

Model of the Guggenheim Museum, wood, plastic, glass, watercolor on paper, 1943-1959.

There is no doubt that the organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright has largely defined the modern architectural approach. Proximity to nature, the merging of all elements of the environment together is what guides architects and designers today. We offer a look at 11 Wright’s iconic projects, in which all the features of his style were manifested.

Legacy

1. Robie House, 1906

Here is a house that is recognized as the starting point for the development of the prairie style. Frank Lloyd Wright built the Robie House at 1906 for Frederic Roby and his wife Laura. The design of the mansion consists of two horizontal rectangular volumes superimposed on each other.

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An impressive cantilevered roof covers the bands of windows that wrap around the house, thus creating a sense of closure and at the same time connecting the house to the surrounding landscape – everything that is prescribed for the prairie style.

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2. Unity Church, 1906–1908

In 1906, Frank Lloyd Wright designs a new Unitarian church in Oak Park to replace the one that burned down in 1905. His Unity Church has been recognized as one of the first monuments of modernism of the 20th century and the project that defined Wright’s style. For construction, the architect chooses an economical material – concrete – which, moreover, can be added with an ornament without unnecessary difficulties and at the same time not spend money on finishing.

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Wright divided the space of the church into two parts: one for worship and the other for social events. Both rooms are naturally lit by skylights, while glass in natural green, yellow and brown hues is reminiscent of the nature inside. The laconic design of the church fully met the needs of the parishioners and, as Wright later stated, changed his attitude towards architecture: “The soul of the building is the space, not its walls.”

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3. Taliesin, 1911 and 1925

One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most important projects, which he named in memory of his mother’s Welsh roots, Taliesin, the name of a 6th-century Welsh poet, which literally translates as “radiant forehead”. This name also symbolizes the architect’s desire to build his residence “inside the hill”, applying all the main elements of his prairie style in the project.

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Local materials, a “flat and cozy” house that spreads across the Wisconsin landscape, for which Wright used yellow limestone from a nearby quarry, cantilevered roofs, wide windows and an open floor plan – all this is the style of Frank Lloyd Wright. Taliesin suffered from fires several times, and the architect rebuilt the residence twice – in 1914 and 1925. And in 1937, the residence became the venue for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship, a special internship program.

4. Ennis house, 1924

After returning from Japan, Wright works in Los Angeles for a while. One of the main results of this period of his career is the Ennis House, in which he revived the concrete block as a structural element and turned it into “a particle of the fabric of the building.”

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The cube-shaped textile concrete blocks were hollow inside with holes at the top and bottom through which they were threaded onto the reinforcement. And the architect covered the front sides of the blocks with ethnic ornaments. So Wright gave concrete blocks his own face.

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5. The Falls House, 1935

We suggest that the next most popular after the Guggenheim Museum is the Falls House, the quintessential organic architecture and style of Frank Lloyd Wright. The architect built this house for the Kaufmans, whose son was an intern at Wright in Taliesin.

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After meeting with clients, Wright decided to create a home for a successful, wealthy American family that would celebrate American nature and his own organic architecture. In the construction of the house on Bear Creek, the architect used breakthrough technologies for that time – for example, he attached reinforced concrete structures directly to the rocks. Thus, the cantilevered terraces, made of local sandstone, are harmoniously combined with natural stone and seem to gracefully soar above a seething waterfall.

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6. Herbert Jacobs House, 1936

described in his work “The Disappearing City”. In total, Wright built about 140 houses in this style. Glass walls, natural materials – wood, stone, brick – all this brought the “Usonian” houses closer to the landscape where they were built. Such techniques, as an open plan, combined living room, dining room and kitchen was later used in the post-war construction of houses in the American style that we know today.0005

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7. Johnson Wax Headquarters, 1936

In the design of the Johnson Wax headquarters, Frank Lloyd Wright failed, as usual, to connect architecture with nature, because it was simply not around. Then he decided to create a building without windows, but with nature inside. The architect promised the owner of the company Herbert Johnson that working in this office would be like walking through a pine forest. Wright achieved this magical effect with the help of two important innovations: reinforced concrete structures and glass tubes

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From concrete, he built slender, snow-white columns that wind from the floor and grow into the “water lilies” that support the roof. the lack of windows create an incredibly bright space.Despite the romanticism of this technique, engineering thought could not keep up with Frank Lloyd Wright’s flight of fancy and the roof of the headquarters leaked during every rainstorm.The architect later connected the 14-story research center tower to the office using a covered bridge By the way, it was one of two vertical structures built by Wright in his entire career (the other is Price Towe r).

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8. Taliesin West, 1937

In 1937, Wright bought several hundred acres of land in the godforsaken steppes of Arizona and began to build his winter residence there – Taliesin West. As always, giving preference to local materials, the architect creates a house of volcanic stone, enclosed in wooden molds and fixed with a mixture of concrete and sand. 0005

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Over time, the house has been rebuilt, expanded, restored: many rooms are interconnected by terraces, passages and gardens. Almost all the furniture in this house was created by the architect himself. Now it houses the offices of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and the Frank Lloyd Wright School, which became his famous Taliesin Fellowship program.0005

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9. Beth Sholom Synagogue, 1954

One of the most important projects of Wright’s late career was the Beth Sholom Synagogue, in which he took a modern approach to faith, history and religious culture. The synagogue is a pyramid planted on a metal base.

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The translucent pyramidal roof is made of two layers of glass and fiberglass, thanks to which the synagogue is always illuminated by daylight, and at night the pyramid glows softly in the dark.

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10. Price Tower, 1952

The only high-rise building built by the father of American prairie style is the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, which became the office for the oil company H.C. price company. The design of the skyscraper is inspired by the shape of a tree trunk, and 19 concrete floors have become its branches.

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The facades of the tower are decorated with copper ornamental plates with green “leaves” and glass elements of golden hues. In 1981, the tower was acquired by Phillips Petroleum, and since 1985 it has housed an art center, a museum, a hotel and a bar.

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11. Guggenheim Museum, 1956

collection of contemporary art from the Guggenheim.Wright accepted the proposal for the largest project of his life and created that very “snail” that contrasts with the strict rectangular houses of Manhattan.Inside the museum, the architect invites visitors to climb to the very top and descend from the transparent ceiling along a spiral staircase down, enjoying contemporary art

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Text: Sophia Karpenko

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Residences Taliesin

Taliesin is the architect’s longest running project. This is not only his residence, but also a school. In this part we learn about the dramatic fate of the house.

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Wright’s Taliesin Residences in the Wisconsin River Valley and Arizona are buildings of outstanding architecture and dramatic history.

\* Taliesin is a semi-legendary bard, the oldest poet who wrote in the Welsh language. In Welsh, his name means “radiant forehead.” Wright named the hillside on which he built his residence in Wisconsin.

👤 Wright was an individualist, shunned and despised other architects. Therefore, it is quite natural that he did not want to teach at any school, but decided to make his own. The buildings built for the school were for him both a home and an office, and an example of the architecture that he taught. A special family atmosphere was created inside the school, students lived and studied and worked on Wright’s projects together.

↔️ In the spirit of the ideology of organic architecture, Wright created two such residences – and moved between them. In the summer you could spend time in the comfortable climate of Wisconsin, in the winter – in Arizona, where temperatures rarely drop below zero. From a pedagogical point of view, each of the Taliesins exemplifies Wright’s main ideas about the interaction of architecture with landscape and climate.

⛰ Taliesin in Wisconsin. The summer residence stands in the Wisconsin Valley, where Wright often spent his childhood summers with Uncle James. He liked these places so much that he considered them his home. It was also here that Wright made his first architectural project, designing the interior of a church for his uncle. In 1911, Wright built a summer residence in these places in the style of “prairie houses”, the idea of \u200b\u200bwhich the architect was largely inspired in these places. The building suffered from fires twice and was rebuilt.

🏜 Taliesin in Arizona. The architect has always believed that the arid Arizona climate is perfect for working and teaching students. He said that “Arizona needs its own architecture.” He was inspired by the local deserts and plateaus with their contours, natural colors of nature.

🧱 In 1937-1959, Wright built a winter residence in Arizona on the southern slope of the McDowell Range. He actively used local materials – he built the walls from desert stones, and made part of the roof, house and facade from mahogany. The natural hues blended the building even more into the local landscape.

☀️ The house stands very low to the ground – this provided natural ventilation and protection from the bright desert sun. The result is a series of spaces connected by terraces, gardens and pools. Everything together was designed to blend in with the landscape and create a sense of privacy at the same time. Wright later added a large dining room, a music pavilion, and a cabaret theatre.

▪️ Here Wright develops the idea of open space even deeper than in the prairie houses. It turned out to be a very interesting plan, in which the boundaries between the inner and outer space (the rooms and the platform on which the building stands) are almost invisible.

1. Maima (Mary) Cheney
2, 3. Newspaper articles about the tragedy in Taliesin
4, 5. Aftermath of the fire
6. Wright and Olgivanna
7. Costume party in Taliesin

The Taliesin residence in Wisconsin is associated with a series of scandals, including murder and arson.

👤 Wright’s figure gradually became known not only in architectural circles and among clients, but also to the general public. The image of a genius was supplemented by the fact that Wright surrounded himself with employees and students and lived with them in the forest – mysteriously and suspiciously at the same time. The atmosphere may not have been the healthiest, as evidenced by the regular troubles, even the tragedies with Taliesin. But they fueled interest in Wright.

❤️ In 1903, Wright designed a house for a neighbor, Edwin Cheney. Wright has an affair with Edwin’s wife, Mayma (Mary). Maima was a feminist, and Wright became interested in her, among other things, because of her intelligence and progressive views. Everyone knew about their relationship. In the gossip column, newspapers wrote about their trip to Europe, snidely calling it a “spiritual hajj” and calling Wright’s residence a “love nest.”

👫 In 1909, the couple met in Europe, leaving their families in the USA. Then Wright spent almost a year in European countries. During this time, Mary divorced her husband, but Wright’s wife refused to file for divorce. Wright built Taliesin in Wisconsin in many ways for Maima, who lived there.

🔥 In 1914, a tragedy occurred in Taliesin: servant Julian Carlton set fire to the house, killing seven people during the fire, including Maima and her two children. After that, Wright completely restored and rebuilt the house, naming the residence Taliesin II.

👰 After the tragedy, Wright married again – to Olgivanna Lazovic (of course, her name was Olga Ivanovna), originally from Montenegro. Olga Ivanovna spent some time in Russia, she was also a mysterious person – a follower of the mystic Gurdjieff, for whom she left Russia for France, and then for the USA. She became a loyal associate of Wright, who understood his philosophy well, and an important figure in the community that grew up around Wright in Taliesin – it was called the Fellowship.

In 1925 there was a second fire. After restoration, the residence became known as Taliesin III.

1–5. Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture during his lifetime – about 600 students directly from Wright
6–8. Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture today
9. All students of the school fit on its porch

At the end of the day, let’s take a look at how Wright turned his residences into unusual architectural schools.

📐 Wright, despite the progressiveness of his architecture, still remained a man of the 19th century – for him, the ideal architect was not a professional, but an artisan, in the spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement of William Morris. The desire not to separate creative and personal life led to the emergence of Taliesins – large residences that were both an office and then a school.

👥 The first Fellowship appeared in 1932, an association around Taliesin in Wisconsin. It included Wright’s staff and students and their families. In the area around Taliesin, they rented or built houses for themselves.

▪️ At first, there was an idea to make Taliesin a center of culture, like Abramtsevo – here they were supposed to do not only architecture, but also painting, sculpture, music, theater and dance. They wanted to call playwright Eugene O’Neill, artist Giorgio O’Keeffe, architectural critic Lews Mumford, composer Igor Stravinsky, and even director Sergei Eisenstein as teachers.

▪️ Alas, this grandiose project did not work out. But a community arose of about three dozen of Wright’s associates, who worked together on projects and even in the garden.

📈 School felt good or bad in sync with Wright’s career, which had its ups and downs. After the war, Wright was offered several major commissions (including the Guggenheim Museum in New York), and life in the Fellowship was quite vigorous. After the death of Wright, the Partnership was headed by Olgivanna and until 19In the 1980s, she remained president of the Wright Foundation, which arose after his death.

🎓 Only after 1985 the school took shape officially – it passed all the necessary accreditation procedures and was named Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. The program took into account all of Wright’s most important ideas, including proximity to nature, not only in design, but also physically – both residences received the status of monuments, reserves, so that the schools were reliably protected from encroachment by developers or crowds of tourists.

🧩 And yet, the school did not become quite noticeable against the background of other American universities – there are no big celebrities among the graduates of the school, and it was treated more as a way to pay tribute to the memory of the architect and his interesting biography, as well as to preserve the spirit of architecture in both Taliesinakh.

▪️ In 2020, due to funding difficulties due to the pandemic (after all, the main point of this school is to live in it, and with this problems began), the school was on the verge of closing, and students (still 30 people) wanted to be transferred to another educational institution so that they can complete their education.

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Frank Lloyd Wright: photos of houses and biography of the architect﻿

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