Frank Lloyd Wright

Born just two years after the American civil war, Frank Lloyd Wright is labelled one of the greatest Architects of all time who took all the opportunities he had. At the age of 19, Wright left school after just two terms and headed for a new venture in Chicago to look for a new work in the architecture industry.

Just after a few months and several brief employments in different offices, Frank Lloyd Wright was hired by the prestigious firm of Adler and Sullivan. He kept this employment for 6 years, but in 1893 he started a new personal venture by opining his own architecture office.

As from his first work, Wright’s early houses showed some unique characteristics and highlighted the capabilities of the architect from the early start. Houses that featured horizontal lines with rooflines which deeply overhang.  Buildings that had uninterrupted walls of windows which invited the nature inside. His buildings were built with natural materials and never painted.

One of his most famous works is Falling water. It was designed in 1935 by Frank Lloyd wright himself. It is very unique houses even by the location where it is built. The way that Wright designed the house makes it bond with the surrounding nature. It overhangs on a stream of fresh water it makes it looks like that it is a part of nature.

When I look at the work of Frank Lloyd Wright I compare his work to sever architects which were working in other movements. One of the main features of Wrights buildings is the horizontal structures that dominate the design of Frank Lloyd Wright. It can be compared the horizontal structures which emerged in architecture from Bauhaus and International style. It is a future which is related to the form follows function rule by the Bauhaus institute but Frank Lloyd Wright had the idea that form and function are one. The choice of materials was an issue for the different designers from different movements as they all tried to make specific choices on the materials especially to choose appropriate materials. As the design from the international style was built with reinforced concrete, the choice of Frank Lloyd Wright was very different as his main focus was to build houses which are bound with nature. His choice of materials was made by using natural materials.

By the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, more awareness was introduced in construction industry. Hi main focuses was one of the start of more self-sufficient designs which in his time was very important and in need as not a lot of designer had the knowledge of materials from nature as during the time many of them did not think about the impact on nature that they are making by designing things which were made from nature damaging materials.

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Frank Lloyd Wright; biography. 2014. Frank Lloyd Wright; biography. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.cmgww.com/historic/flw/bio.html. [Accessed 27 January 2014].