{"id":1523,"date":"2022-05-23T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T11:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rrsilvin.com\/2.0\/addison-mizner-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-07-15T13:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T17:15:34","slug":"frank-lloyd-wright","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rrsilvin.com\/2.0\/frank-lloyd-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Lloyd Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1523\" data-postid=\"1523\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1523 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-css_id=\"wwfa549\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth_row_container tb_wwfa549 tb_first tf_w\">\n            <span  class=\"builder_row_cover tf_abs\" data-lazy=\"1\"><\/span>            <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_aacp551 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_deks551  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT<\/b><\/h1><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>The Dramatic Life of America\u2019s Most Controversial and Creative Architect<\/b><\/h1>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_ku04550 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_funk554 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_tbuq554  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1501 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/rrsilvin.com\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FLW-e1651921778574-249x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>Frank Lloyd Wright has been called the greatest American architect of the first half of the Twentieth Century. During a career that spanned seven decades, he worked on over a thousand projects, five hundred of which were built. Many of his structures are still studied by students from all over the world.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4><h4><strong>Born in rural Wisconsin in 1867, Wright had a tumultuous personal life punctuated by many professional vicissitudes and scandals, which makes his life story seem like a dramatic work of fiction. He married three times, had eight children, and remained productive and creative until the day he died in 1959, at 91 years of age.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4><h4><strong>Wright\u2019s most famous residence is Fallingwater, built in 1935 in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. The American Institute of Architects named Fallingwater the \u201cbest all-time work of American architecture\u201d and the Smithsonian Institution lists it as \u201cone of the 28 places to see before you die.\u201d The breathtaking structure is still studied by dozens of architecture students and visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists yearly.<\/strong><\/h4><h4><strong>Wright\u2019s other most famous lingering legacy is the extremely controversial Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum at Fifth Avenue and 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Wright\u2019s work on this unique, cylindrical structure, began in 1943 and opened 6 months after Wright\u2019s death in 1959. Wright said his distinctive museum would make the nearby Metropolitan Museum of Art \u201clook like a Protestant barn.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4><h4><strong>Wright\u2019s homes transformed the way we live. He is the inventor of \u201corganic architecture\u201d and the open plan for family life, expressed in different ways through his horizontal Prairie Style homes, the textile-block structures, and the more affordable \u201cUsonian\u201d houses.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4><h4><strong>Wright\u2019s legacy lives on due to the unique contribution of his styles and because of the on-going work of his many disciples, who studied at Wright\u2019s \u201cFellowship\u201d at his home-offices of &#8220;Taliesin&#8221; in Wisconsin, and \u201cTaliesin West\u201d in Arizona.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4><h4><strong>Wright\u2019s body of work also includes hotels, office buildings and churches. Ren\u00e9 will describe Wright&#8217;s work using over 200 slides, renderings, newsreels, and interviews, giving the audience a feeling of living with this unusual, often called &#8220;arrogant genius.&#8221;<\/strong><\/h4>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT The Dramatic Life of America\u2019s Most Controversial and Creative Architect Frank Lloyd Wright has been called the greatest American architect of the first half of the Twentieth Century. During a career that spanned seven decades, he worked on over a thousand projects, five hundred of which were built. 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