Frank Lloyd Wright

1867–1959 · American · 21 buildings on the wall

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) was an American architect, designer and writer who designed more than 1,000 structures over 70 years. He called his approach "organic architecture", design in harmony with people and the land. He pioneered the Prairie School, later developed the Usonian home, and trained hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. In 2019, eight of his buildings were listed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Unity Temple in Oak Park (1908) is built of reinforced concrete, with flat overhanging slabs instead of a spire. The Robie House in Chicago (1910), one of his finest Prairie houses, steps its terraces across several levels under cantilevered roofs. Fallingwater in Pennsylvania stands partly over a waterfall on Bear Run, its terraces cantilevered from a central chimney. In the Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine (1939), concrete columns topped by wide "calyxes" hold up the great workroom, with windows of Pyrex glass tubes. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1959) wraps its gallery in a six-storey spiral ramp under a central skylight. Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings are studied for how they tie a building to its site.

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