All the influences, or forces, affected everything Wright learned during his years of apprenticeship and formed the philosophical basis for his vision of merging his architecture with nature, the developed landscape, the visual and fine arts, and the large environment of community as he conceived, defined and refined continuously his principles for organic architecture during the 70 years of professional life.

1. Coming directly from a root, forces that shaped the young architect.

2. Phases that shaped the young architect.
Family
• The formative
years (1885)
Fellowship
• The years of
Apprenticeship
Work
• The Emergent
years

3. The formative years. 1885
• Mother
Anna Llyod Jones Wright
• Uncle Richard Jones
• Farmers Wisconsin
The years of Apprenticeship
• Joseph Lyman Silsbee
• Louis Sullivan
• Riverside, Illinois (1868)
• The South Shore Development Plan- Chicago, Illinois
(1870)
• World’s Columbian Exposition- Chicago, Illinois
(1893)
• City Beautiful Movement
• Garden City Movement
• Prairie School Movement (1900-1915)
• Ossian Cole Simonds
• Jen Jensen
The Emergent years

4. Mother’s role in The formative years
1. When he was a child, Wright's mother gave him simple wooden Froebel blocks with the intention of
raising an architect.
2.Froebel building blocks thought him the 3D solids, Geometric shapes, and proportions of architecture.
"That early kindergarten experience with the straight line; the flat plane; the square; the triangle; the circle! If I
wanted more, the square modified by the triangle gave the hexagon, the circle modified by the straight line would
give the octagon. Adding thickness, getting 'sculpture' thereby, the square became the cube, the triangle the
tetrahedron, the circle the sphere."
Frank Lloyd Wright, from An Autobiography

5. The Geometry of Froebel blocks
St. Mark’s Tower Project, NY, 1929
Larkin administrative building, NY (1906).
Tragically demolished in 1950.
Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, 1905

6. Robie house, 1906
A set of six seasonal tents on the beach called "Ras-el-Bar", Egypt in
1927.
Geometrically, the designs were derived from the Square, as were many
Frank Lloyd Wright designs.

7. Farmers Wisconsin
Uncles ’s role in The formative years
1.Working on the farms of his uncles, where appreciation of the natural landscape was nurtured.
2.Observing nature and work ethics.
1.Learned to know the ground floor plan of the region in every line and feature .
2.Sensivity for the geography and geology of the region.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography. (1943).

8. The years of Apprenticeship and tenure with Louis Sullivan
The years of Apprenticeship for Joseph Lyman Silsbee
Charles E. Aguart, Wrightscapes : Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs. (2002).
1.Learned his craft by doing, by observing, thinking, through, personally experiencing.
2. Symmetry to casual arrangements, fore shortening, representation by linear means (contour)
and the introduction of landscape backgrounds.
3.Japanese print and Japanese communal garden.
1. Draftsman in Chicago Auditorium building.
2. Looked upon Sullivan.
3.Actively involved in the Chicago school movement.
4. Became Domestic architect.
5.Urbanization: decentralization and suburbanization.

9. The years of Apprenticeship : Riverside, 1868, Chicago.
Charles E. Aguart, Wrightscapes : Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs. (2002).
Riverside’s Curvilinear roadway inspired Wright and Sullivan
designed 1890 for Sullivan’s winter vacation colony. Which
happened in his earliest apprenticeship year.

10. The south shore parks development plan, 1870, Chicago.
Charles E. Aguart, Wrightscapes : Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs. (2002).
Olmsted and Vaux proposed 2 parks and Midway Plaisance purpose
to access between parks and integrate the waterway system to drain
into lake for sustainable development over time.
After popularity of the area Wright designed Midway garden in 1913.
Midway garden

11. World’s Columbian exposition, 1893, Chicago.
1. Low lying parts- Dredging to effectively drain the area
into lake.
2. Dredged up material- used to form island or to
fill/contour sit.
3. Olmsted introduced extensive docks, piers, bridges, towers
and viaducts. Midway Plaisance as an area for entertainment.
4. Naturalistic open space to be held free from buildings to serve
as foil to the artificial grandeur and other scenery.
Wright inspired by this form of land reformation.

12. WOLF LAKE AMUSEMENT PARK, 1895, Chicago. (Unbuild)
Olmsted introduced extensive docks, piers, bridges, towers and
viaducts. Midway Plaisance as an area for entertainment. Wright
inspired by this form of land reformation.
Two years later in 1895, wright produced the same process of
development for a Marshland area WOLF LAKE AMUSEMENT
PARK.

13. The Chicago exposition, 1893, Chicago.
The Chicago exposition gave him his 1st
lesson in town planning.
He quote it as Great example of a scheme or
system. It provided a place for everything and
everything in its place.
The exposition linked with Garden city
movement, The prairie school movement
indirectly.
As all three movements were developing
essentially parallel to each other.
And to that period in Wright’s life when he
himself trying to find his way as a practicing
professional, he was actively involved with
and influenced by each of them.
633 acres development as Jackson Park when Olmsted
recommended for the Chicago exposition.

14. City Beautiful Movement 1890-1900s
Wright participated in promotional activity is verified by the caption
“ Architect talks on city beautiful”, an article in April 25, 1906.
He discussed the need of Landscape gardening in civic beautification.
Later designed Bitter root town plan, 1909, inspired
from this movement. It was extensively landscaped
based design.
Bitter root town plan, 1909

15. Garden City Movement, 1898
A method of urban planning, self-contained communities
surrounded by "greenbelts", containing proportionate
areas of residences, industry and agriculture.
The theories formed the basic premise of the layouts
wright prepared for the city club competition, 1913
and this famed Broadacre city model.
an urban or suburban development concept

16. Charles E. Aguart, Wrightscapes : Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs. (2002).
Ossian Cole Simonds and Jen Jensen
Practiced as a landscape gardener and designed Graceland
cemetery, Chicago in 1880.
Curvilinear road system, selected plants and The Prairie spirit
in landscape gardening inspired Wright.
The Haddock House
Known as The Herbert F. Johnson House
Wingspread Wisconsin, 1937.
Graceland cemetery, Chicago

17. Wright’s “organic” design aesthetic was inspired by much more than the primary motivating influences generally cited-that is,
1. Froebel building blocks he played with as a child,
2. The teachings of Joseph and Sullivan,
3. The Japanese exhibits associated with the world’s Columbian exposition,
4. The substance of Japanese prints.
Wright’s sensitivity for the environment and his basic ecological sensibilities were acquired his formative years as
1.Wright’s farmer uncles thought him to respect the inevitability of climatic conditions and build in the natural way of things.
2.Recognition of the need for urban planning derived from his personal experiences with Chicago initial decentralization and
suburbanization.
All these influences, or forces, affected everything Wright learned during his years of apprenticeship and formed the
philosophical basis for his personal vision of merging his architecture with nature, the developed landscape, the visual and fine
arts, and the large environment of community as he conceived, defined and constantly refined his principles for organic
architecture during the 70-year span of professional life.

18. 1. Anna Andrzejewski. (2016, August 2). Rethinking Frank Lloyd Wright in the 21st Century. Edge effects, viewed 10th
August 2020, https://edgeeffects.net/frank-lloyd-wright/.
2. Charles E. Aguart, Wrightscapes : Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs. (2002).
3. Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography. (1943).
4. Robert McCarter, Frank Lloyd Wright Architect. (November 2005).