.Frank Lloyd Wright ,born at June 8, 1867, died at April 9, 1959 an architect.
His woeks most prominent and influential architects.
He developed a series of highly individual styles over his extraordinarily long
architectural career (spanning the years 1887 - 1959) and he influenced the entire
course of architecture and building internationally. To this day, he remains
America's most famous architect.
Wright was famous in his lifetime. His colorful personal life frequently made
headlines, most notably for the failure of his first two marriages and for the
1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio.
Early years
Frank Lloyd Wright was born in the agricultural town of Richland Center,
Wisconsin, United States, on June 8, 1867, just two years after the end of the
American Civil War. Originally named Frank Lincoln Wright, he changed his name
after his parents' divorce to honor his mother's Welsh family, the Lloyd Joneses
of Wisconsin. His father, William Russell Cary Wright was a locally admired
orator, music teacher, occasional lawyer and itinerant minister.
His father had
met and married Anna Lloyd Jones, a county school teacher, the previous year
when he was employed as the superintendent of schools for Richland County.
Originally from Massachusetts, William Wright had been a Baptist minister but he
later joined his wife's family in the Unitarian faith. Anna Lloyd Jones was a
member of the large, prosperous and well-known Lloyd Jones family of Unitarians,
who had emigrated from Wales to southwestern Wisconsin. Both of Wright's parents
were strong-willed individuals with idiosyncratic interests that they passed on
to Frank. His mother declared ,when she was expecting her first child, that he
would grow up to build beautiful buildings. She decorated his nursery with
engravings of English Cathedrals torn from a periodical to encourage the
infant's ambition.
The family moved to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1870 where
William had been called as a minister to a small congregation. During this
period in the East, Anna visited the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and
viewed an exhibit of educational blocks created by Friedrich Wilhelm August
Froebel. The blocks, known as Froebel Gifts, were the foundation of his
innovative kindergarten curriculum.
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