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The Life of Frank Lloyd Wright
“The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright, 1957 FacebookTwitter
Ask the average citizen to name a famous American architect and you can bet that their answer will be Frank Lloyd Wright.
Wright gained such cultural primacy for good reason: he changed the way we build and live. Designing 1,114 architectural works of all types — 532 of which were realized — he created some of the most innovative spaces in the United States.
With a career that spanned seven decades before his death in 1959, Wright’s visionary work cemented his place as the American Institute of Architects’ “greatest American architect of all time.”
Early Life
The experiences of Wright’s upbringing were crucial in forming Wright’s unique aesthetic.
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