The famous American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright changed the way we build and the way we live. As an architect, Frank Lloyd Wright was known for many things, but perhaps his most famed characteristic was his exceptional attention to detail – in many of his projects, each furniture piece was designed specifically for its intended location.

1. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

2. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Frank Lloyd Wright was born
in Richland Center, Wisconsin,
on June 8, 1867.
Died in Phoenix, Arizona, on
April 9, 1959, at the age of 91.

3. •YOUNG FRANK SPENT MUCH TIME PLAYING WITH
THE BLOCKS. THESE WERE GEOMETRICALLY-
SHAPED AND COULD BE ASSEMBLED IN VARIOUS
COMBINATIONS TO FORM THREE-DIMENSIONAL
COMPOSITIONS. MANY OF HIS BUILDINGS ARE
NOTABLE FOR THE GEOMETRICAL CLARITY THEY
EXHIBIT.
•WRIGHT ATTENDED A MADISON HIGH SCHOOL BUT
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE HE EVER GRADUATED. HE
WAS ADMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-
MADISON AS A SPECIAL STUDENT IN 1886.
•IN 1887, WRIGHT LEFT THE SCHOOL WITHOUT
TAKING A DEGREE. HE MOVED TO CHICAGO AND HE
JOINED THE ARCHITECTURAL FIRM OF JOSEPH
LYMAN SILSBEE. WITHIN A YEAR,
•HE LEFT SILSBEE TO WORK FOR THE FIRM OF
ADLER & SULLIVAN AS AN APPRENTICE TO LOUIS
SULLIVAN. BIOGRAPHY

4. • FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DESCRIBED
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE AS FOLK
BUILDING GROWING IN RESPONSE TO
ACTUAL NEEDS, FITTED INTO ENVIRONMENT
BY PEOPLE WHO KNEW NO BETTER THAN TO
FIT THEM WITH NATIVE FEELING.
•FOR WRIGHT, DESIGN AND FORM ACQUIRED
A SYMBOLIC MEANING. ARCHITECTURE CAN
EMBODY "PICTURESQUE" QUALITIES THAT
HARMONIZE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHIES

5. RIGHT'S DESIGN SOLUTION WAS TO VIEW ALL
DETAILS OF A STRUCTURE AS THE PRODUCT OF
A SINGLE INDEPENDENT MIND - INCLUDING ALL
MAJOR AND MINOR ORNAMENTAL AND SYMBOLIC
ELEMENTS.
BASIC PRINCIPLES:
ORGANIC COLORS
SIMPLE GEOMETRIC SHAPES
INTEGRATION OF BUILDING WITH NATURAL
SURROUNDINGS
STRONG HORIZONTAL LINES
HIDDEN ENTRIES
DESIGN PHILOSOPHIES

6. Which of these basic principles do you see in the
Arthur Heurtley House in Oak Park, Illinois
built in 1902?
Organic Colors?
Simple
Geometric
Shapes?
Integration with
Natural
Surroundings?Strong
Horizontal
Lines?
Hidden Entry
Way?

7. NAME CITY STATE DESIGNED BUILT
ROBERT P. PARKER
HOUSE
OAK PARK ILLINOIS 1892 1892
WALTER H. GALE
HOUSE
OAK PARK ILLINOIS 1893 1893
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
(STUDIO)
OAK PARK ILLINOIS 1897 1898
WILLIAN E. MARTIN
HOUSE
OAK PARK ILLINOIS 1902
UNITY TEMPLE OAK PARK ILLINOIS 1904 1905-08
KAUFFMAN HOUSE BEAR RUN PENNSLYVANIA 1935 1936-38
JHONSON WAX
HEADQUARTERS
RACINE WISCONSIN 1936 1936-1929
TALIESIN WEST SCOTTSDALE ARIZONA 1937 1937
MARIN COUNTY CIVIC
CENTRE
SAN RAEFAL CALIFORNIA 1957 1976

8. Case studies
 CASE STUDY 1: THE FALLING WATER
CASE STUDY 2: TALEISIN WEST
CASE STUDY 3 :PARIERI HOUSING
CASE STUDY 4:JHONSON WAX BUILDING
CASE STUDY 5:THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
OF MODERN ART

9. Location: Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Nearest city: Uniontown
Coordinates: 39°54′22″N 79°28′5″W
Built: 1936 - 1939
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural style: Modern Architecture
Falling water (Mill Run,
Pennsylvania, 1937) is
generally considered to be
Wright’s residential
masterpiece.
THE FALLING
WATER

10. THE CONSTRUCTION IS A
SERIES OF CANTILEVERED
BALCONIES AND TERRACES,
USING LIMESTONE FOR ALL
VERTICALS AND CONCRETE FOR
THE HORIZONTALS. THE HOUSE
COST $155,000, INCLUDING THE
ARCHITECT'S FEE OF $8,000.
THE COLOR OF THE
BUILDING IS TAKEN FROM
RHODODENDRON
LEAVES.

11. WRIGHT USED
ONLY 4 MATERIALS
TO BUILD FALLING
WATER: SANDSTONE,
REINFORCED
CONCRETE, STEEL
AND GLASS.
WILD ANIMALS LIVE
NEAR IT. TREES
SURROUND IT.
WATER SWIRLS
UNDERNEATH. HUGE
BOULDERS REST AT
ITS FEET. F.L.
WRIGHT DESIGNED
FALLING WATER TO
BE IN HARMONY WITH
NATURE.

12. THE FOUR BASIC SHAPE
USED ARE:
*PENTAGON
*RECTANGLE
*SEMI-CIRCLE
*SQUARE
ALL THE STONES AT
FALLING WATER WERE
QUARRIED ABOUT 500
FEET WEST OF THE
WATERFALLS.
WORKERS PUT UP THE
STONE IN A ROUGH,
SHIFTING MANNER SO IT
WOULD LOOK LIKE ROCK
COMING RIGHT FROM THE
GROUND.
DRIVEWAY LEADING TO KAUFFMAN
HOME

13. The interior of falling water depicting the sitting area with furnishing designed
by Wright

14. The location of the north bank of
Bear Run
PROBLEM FACED SOLUTION
Location of the north bank of Bear Run was not large
enough to provide a foundation
Decided on a cantilevered structure
Wright's insufficient experience using reinforced
concrete
Used upside down T-shaped beams integrated into a
monolithic concrete slab
Did not build in a slight upward incline in
the formwork for the cantilever to compensate for
the settling and deflection of the cantilever.
Install a supporting wall under the main supporting
beam for the west terrace
ANALYSIS

15. TALIESIN WEST
TALIESIN
WEST WAS
ARCHITECT FRANK
LLOYD WRIGHT'S
WINTER HOME
AND SCHOOL IN
THE DESERT
FROM 1937 UNTIL
HIS DEATH
Wright believed this
to be the perfect spot
for such a building, a
place of residence, a
place of business
and a place to learn.
Location: Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard,
Scottsdale, Arizona
Coordinates: 33°36 22.8 N111°50 45.5 W′ ″ ′ ″
Area: 620 acres (250 ha)
Built: 1937
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Purpose

17.  NATURAL LIGHT PLAYED A MAJOR
PART IN THE DESIGN. IN THE
DRAFTING ROOM, WRIGHT USED
TRANSLUCENT CANVAS TO ACT AS A
ROOF (LATER REPLACED BY
PLASTIC). IN THE SOUTH-FACING
DINING ROOM, WRIGHT DID NOT
TAKE THE MASONRY WALLS FROM
FLOOR TO CEILING, AND DESIGNED
THE ROOF TO HANGOVER PASSED
THE WALLS PREVENTING
UNWANTED SUN RAYS FROM
PENETRATING BUT ALLOWING FOR
HORIZONTAL LIGHT TO PASS
THROUGH THE ROOM.
Taliesin West pool & fountain
Frank Lloyd Wright office (left), main studio (right)

18. Main studio and sunken garden

19. The garden room(exterior)
The garden room (interior)
The structure's walls are
made of local desert rocks,
stacked within wood forms,
filled with concrete.
 Wright always favoured
using the materials readily
available rather than those
that must be transported to
the site.

20. PARIRIE HOUSING
Frank Lloyd Wright Home
and Studio
Oak Park, Illinois (1889)
Prairie houses were characterized by low,
horizontal lines that were meant to blend
with the flat landscape around them.
Typically, these structures were built
around a central chimney, consisted of
broad open spaces instead of strictly
defined rooms, and deliberately blurred
the distinction between interior space and
the surrounding terrain. Wright acclaimed
"the new reality that is space instead of
matter" and, about architectural interiors,
said that the "reality of a building is not
the container but the space within."

21. Robbie House Chicago, Illinois (1909)

22. Harold C. Bradley House, Madison

23. Oak Park, Illinois is home to the world's largest collection
of Frank Lloyd Wright designed buildings and houses, with
25 structures built between 1889 and 1913. It was in our
village that Wright developed and perfected his signature
Prairie Style architecture, emphasizing the use of interior
light and open spaces in low, earth-hugging buildings. His
designs changed the course of 20th century architecture.
Many of the Wright houses and buildings in Oak Park and
River Forest are registered National Historic Landmarks.
He lived and worked in the area between 1889 and 1909.
One can find Wright's earliest work here, like the Winslow
House in neighbouring River Forest, Illinois.. There are
also examples of the first prairie-style houses in Oak Park.
He also designed Unity Temple, a [Unitarian-
Universalist]church, which was built between 1905 and
1908.

24. William Martin House Oak Park,
Illinois (1905)
Purpose
A Residential
building

25. Layout of the Martin House complex,
from a 1916 map
SITE PLAN

26. Bookcase in library or Living
Room with lights.

27. DINING
ROOM

28. LIVING ROOM LOOKING NORTH

29. RECEPTION ROOM

30. Although
Wright
continued to
design
residences for
the rest of his
life, his later
career
included
commissions
to design
some
remarkable
public
buildings.
The Guggenheim Museum of
Modern Art,New York, 1959

31. Frank Lloyd Wright
honoured with
museum in
background
Established 1937
Location Upper East Side, Manhattan , New York, U.S.
Coordinates 40.782975°N 73.958992°W
Type Art museum
Director Richard Armstrong
Public transit access 86th Street (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)
Location: 1071 Fifth Ave., New York, New York, USA
Area: less than one acre
Built: 1959
Architect: Wright, Frank Lloyd; Cohen, George
Architectural style: Modern Movement
It is the permanent home of a renowned and
continuously expanding collection
of Impressionist , Post-Impressionist, early Modern
and contemporary art and also features special
exhibitions throughout the year. The museum was
established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Non-
Objective Painting.
Purpose

32. An interior view of the museum on a busy day

33. Guggenheim interior
The cylindrical
museum
building, wider
at the top than
the bottom

34. Guggenheim Museum exterior after the 3-year renovation
Its unique ramp
gallery extends
from just under
the skylight in
the ceiling in a
long, continuous
spiral along the
outer edges of
the building until
it reaches the
ground level.

35. Guggenheim Museum
under construction
The skylight in the centre
of the museum

36. PROBLEM FACED SOLUTION
Some of the criticism focused on the idea that the
building overshadows the artworks displayed inside
and that it is difficult to properly hang paintings in
the shallow, windowless, concave exhibition niches
that surround the central spiral.
The building was supplemented by an adjoining
rectangular tower, taller than the original spiral,
designed by the architectural firm of Gwathmey
Siegel & Associates Architects
ANALYSIS

37. The Marin County (California) Civic
Center (1962)
Location: San rafael , california
Coordinates: 37°59 59 N122°31 48 W′ ″ ′ ″
Built: 1960
Architectural style Modern movement

38. San Rafael, CA – From the moment he viewed Scettrini Ranch, the site in
San Rafael’s Santa Venetia District purchased to house a new county civic
center, architect Frank Lloyd Wright recognized that the site was a magical
place. “Where,” he wrote, “a good building was one that makes the
landscape more beautiful than before that building was even built.”
According to Wright’s San Francisco-based associate, Aaron Green,
within twenty minutes, the maestro descended the hillside announcing, “we
will bridge the hills with graceful arches." So it was that Wright added his
master’s touch to the Marin Civic Center, which would be the last major
work before Wright’s death in 1959. Wright’s goal and sense of scale was
as immense as it was masterful: “To open the eyes of not Marin County
alone,” he wrote, “but of the entire country to what public officials gathered
together might themselves do to broaden and beautify human lives.”

42. The Johnson Wax Headquarters
Location: Racine , Wisconsin
Coordinates: 42°42 48.64 N 87°47 26.55 W′ ″ ′ ″
Built: 1936
Architectural style Late 19th
and 20th
centuries American
Movements

43. The interior of the Johnson Wax building
features this distinctive lily-pad design which
allows light to filter to different floors.