Architecture and Design
Audie Santos
6/11/13
June 11th, 2013
Documentary: Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the most famous American architects of the 20th century. The documentary we watched today covers most of his life. Frank was born in Richland Center Wisconsin under the name Frank Lincoln Wright. He grew up with his mother telling him he was going to be a famous architect, and a great person. He went on with that mindset through his studies in school, that he was destined to be great. His parents divorced, and in dedication to his mother, he changed his middle name to his mother's maiden name, Lloyd. When he went on to college, he never finished, and with the knowledge he had learned, left his college, and went to seek apprenticeship under the architect Louis Sullivan. He made houses for Sullivan's clients in the style that Sullivan wanted their houses to be made.
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| Frank Lloyd Wright displaying his design of the Kenneth Laurent House |
Eventually,Wright became bored of Sullivan's architectural style, so he went off and found his own clients under different names. Eventually, Sullivan found out about this, and let Wright go. Wright went off and became his own man, designing buildings in his image. Everyone liked it. Frank went on to different styles, reviving old ones along the way. If he saw a building he liked, he would try to revive or mimic it's style in his own architecture.
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| The Fallingwate house by Frank Wright. |
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