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Questions about Frank Lloyd Wright

Short answers, pulled from the story.

Who was Frank Lloyd Wright and what is he known for?

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator who lived from the 8th of June 1867, to the 9th of April 1959. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years and pioneered the Prairie School movement. In 1991 the American Institute of Architects named him "the greatest American architect of all time."

What is Frank Lloyd Wright's philosophy of organic architecture?

Organic architecture was Frank Lloyd Wright's philosophy of designing in harmony with humanity and the environment. He held that all components of a building should appear unified, as though they belong together, with nothing attached without considering the effect on the whole. He often used large expanses of glass to blur the boundary between indoors and outdoors.

Why is Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater so famous?

Fallingwater is famous because Frank Lloyd Wright built it over a 20-foot waterfall at Mill Run, Pennsylvania, completing it in 1937 for Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. It has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture" and was named "The Building of the 20th century" in a 2000 AIA convention poll. It cost $155,000, including the architect's fee of $8,000.

What happened at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin estate in 1914?

On the 15th of August 1914, a servant named Julian Carlton set fire to the living quarters of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin estate and murdered seven people with an axe as the fire burned. The dead included Mamah Borthwick Cheney and her two children. Carlton swallowed hydrochloric acid and later died from starvation seven weeks after the attack.

How did Frank Lloyd Wright influence Japanese art collecting?

Frank Lloyd Wright was an active dealer in Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints, and for a time he made more money selling art than from architecture. Between 1905 and 1923 he spent more than $500,000 on prints. He helped organize the world's first retrospective exhibition on Hiroshige at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1906.

What was the Taliesin Fellowship founded by Frank Lloyd Wright?

The Taliesin Fellowship was a program Frank Lloyd Wright and his wife Olgivanna started in 1932, inviting students to live and work at Taliesin while learning architecture and spiritual development. Twenty-three came the first year, and a total of 625 people joined in his lifetime. The Fellowship supplied workers for projects including Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum.

When and how did Frank Lloyd Wright die?

Frank Lloyd Wright died quietly on the 9th of April 1959, at the age of 91. He had been hospitalized for abdominal pains on April 4 and was operated upon, and he seemed to be recovering before his death. His remains were removed from his Wisconsin grave in 1985 and interred in Scottsdale, Arizona.