- News, Recent Changes, New Items
- Contents listing for All-Wright Site
- Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?
- Why is Frank Lloyd Wright important?
News, Recent Changes, New Items:- The All-Wright Site is now an Amazon Associate
,
and features links to Frank Lloyd Wright-related books.
- March was Women's History Month. Look up some of the buildings of Marion Mahoney Griffin, an architect who worked in Mr. Wright's Oak Park studio, at Architectural History On-Line [umn.edu]
- The Building Guide in the All-Wright Site was greatly expanded during February and March: hundreds of buildings and a map added.
- The Broadacre All-Wright Site has been online for two years. Many thanks to GeoCities for making this service available to the Internet community.
"The Architect and the Automobile" (Under construction)
All-Wright Site Contents
Building Guide Guide, pages containing
geographically organized links to sites all of Mr. Wright's existing
buildings, all of the demolished ones, and many unbuilt designs
(over 450 buildings listed) in more than 37 states and locations, including
the All-Wright Site's building-specific pages for four of Mr. Wright's
designs. With more than 50 pages, the Building Guide is the largest section
of the Broadacre All-Wright Site.
The All-Wright Site's "neighbor pages" in
GeoCities
Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station
Page
Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?
(Frank Lloyd Wright at a glance)
Why is Frank Lloyd Wright
important?
The Life of Frank Lloyd
Wright (includes links to several other biographies).
Discussion Links. Links
to other sites that have Frank Lloyd Wright message boards and discussion
pages.
Books, Etc.. Reviews and
lists of books and CD-ROMs on Mr. Wright and his works.
Frank Lloyd Wright - friends,
foes, family, students, and colleagues.
Other General-Interest
Sites. A
list of other general-interest Frank Lloyd Wright pages and sites
maintained by others (over 20 sites listed). In addition to these,
there are scores of building-specific sites found in the
Building Guide.
For Sale. Links to
sites selling houses, furniture, and other items. The links are provided
for informational purposes only, and are not an advertising function of the
All-Wright Site.
Links to Frank Lloyd
Wright-related organizations
Searches.. FLW searches
on several Internet search engines.
Frank Lloyd Wright - Politics
Section, under construction.
Quotations by Mr. Wright on
subjects ranging from opera to television, from economics to architecture,
from Pittsburgh to pepper.
Misc. FLW links. Opera
review, song, vampire biography (?), etc.
Louis Sullivan Page
Frank Lloyd Wright - Car Guy:
Lost Links. A list of FLW
sites that used to exist but are now gone. If you know of new locations for
any of the sites listed in the Lost Links page, let
me know.
Other Architecture-Related
Resources (a list of links to other sites of interest.
Under construction
E-mail page. E-mail the
Webwright (webmaster).
Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?
Frank Lloyd Wright at a Glance
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright) lived from 1867 to 1959. During most of these years, from 1885 to 1959, he was a prolific architect, with close to 500 of his designs built (and hundreds more remaining unbuilt) - a career lasting three quarters of a century, and unequaled in output. Mr. Wright worked for architect Louis Sullivan, and he later himself trained many architects at his Taliesin School. Frank Lloyd Wright expoused "organic architecture" and is responsible for the Prairie and Usonian residential styles. Mr. Wright was born in Wisconsin, and he lived most of his life there, also spending some time living in New York City, Germany, Japan, Oak Park (Illinois), and the winter location of his school in Arizona. Mr. Wright had three wives and several children. The third wife, Olgivanna Wright ran the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture until her death in 1985.
Why is Frank Lloyd Wright important?
Do you have a living room on your house? or a carport? Does your house have an "open" floor plan? If so, then the way you live is being directly influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's innovations in residential architecture. "Drawing inspiration from his native midwestern prairie, he coaxed Americans out of their boxlike houses and into wide-open living spaces that suited the American lifestyle" (Carla Lind, The Wright Style) Mr. Wright's "organic architecture" was a radical departure from the traditional architecture of his day, which was dominated by European styles that dated back hundreds of years or even millenia. He contributed the Prairie and Usonian houses to the vernacular of American residential design, and elements of his designs can be found (at least to some small degree) in a large proportion of homes today. While most of his designs were single-family homes (ranging from small homes for families of modest incomes, to mansions like his unbuilt design for Henry Ford), his varied output also includes houses of worship, skyscrapers, resorts, museums, government offices, gas stations, bridges, and other masterpieces showing the diversity of Frank Lloyd Wright's talent.Frank Lloyd Wright's views on architectural space, ornamentation, and relationship to site, and concerning the place of architecture in art, life and philosophy have inspired generations of architects and artists all over the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright's career was notable in several areas:
- The All-Wright Site is now an Amazon Associate
- Practicing Architect. He designed several hundred buildings, of which around 500 were built
- Architectural Theoretician/Academic. He wrote several books on architecture, and founded and ran a successful school in the field, training many architects.
- Artist (Draftsman). His drawings of his buildings and other plans were beautiful and notable in themselves. The L.A.Times said he was a "productive artist whose imagination continued to outpace even his long lifetime of work".
- Interior Design and Furniture. Mr. Wright's design went
beyond the building to the finest details of the interior space,
including furniture, art glass, and other aspects of interior design.
Frank Lloyd Wright's views on architectural space, ornamentation, and relationship to site, and concerning the place of architecture in art, life and philosophy have inspired generations of architects and artists all over the world. Explore the All-Wright Site (and the other sites linked from it) to find out about different aspects of the life and work of a man considered by many to be the greatest architect who ever lived
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