Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

His Influences

• One of Wrights first jobs was at Alder & Sullivan and was an apprentice for Louis Sullivan, who he referred to as his dear master

• Wright was influenced heavily with the materials that surrounded him. If a place where he built a house that had lots of cedar around it then the house would consist of mostly cedar materials. Wright was seen as being an organic architect because of this.

• Wright also dealt japanese prints and made a lot of money from them, it is possible that these influenced his designs.

• Wright was influenced by his his favorite composer Ludwig van Beethoven

• Write was also influenced by the increase in technology for the glassmaking

• Wright learnt and worked in a fazing in and out of different Movements including Victorian, Arts and crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco but more than likely was influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement with the way he used organic and local materials.

He Influenced

• Wright is recognized by the American Institute of Architects in 1991 as the greatest American Architect of all time, so in that regard he would influence most of America's and the Worlds Architecture.

• Wright claimed that all his fellow students just followed him and copied is work

Characteristics

• His houses and buildings featured extended low buildings with shallow, sloping roofs, clean sky lines, suppressed chimneys, overhangs and terraces, using unfinished materials