Frank Lloyd

Wright

Early life• He was born in Richland, Wisconsin on June 8, 1867.• His original name was Frank Lincoln Wright but he

changed it when his parents divorced.• During his summers he worked on his Uncle James

farm in Spring Green , WI and it made him a strong person.

• He then dropped out of high school to become an architect.

The Innovation• Wright didn’t like the Victorian style houses of his

time and ended up designing the house styles we live in today.

• He made his houses with only doors for the bathrooms and bedrooms.

• He created examples of the prairie style houses that had low roofs that opened up into wide open spaces. Most of his houses had a fireplace at the center. He gained great fame for using only local materials in the prairie style architecture.

Later On• One of his most famous buildings was the

Robbie house built in Illinois. His prairie style became so famous it spread world wide.

• Another one of his later creations was the Imperial Hotel built in 1915.

• The final building he made was the Guggenheim Museum. It seemed to mimic its surroundings. He never got to see it because he died before it was finished.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s

Wingspread

Wingspread is a building in Racine that is different and beautiful at the same

time. It was designed in 1909 with most of the rooms flowing together to

create many rooms in one gigantic room…

You can see that the rooms somehow flow together in a graceful

manner.

If you look closely you can

see a unique design in the Wingspread. What’s your

favorite part? Would you ever want to visit it? I know I would!!!

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The staircase is connected to the fireplace, two unique

items in an unique arrangement, very Frank

Lloyd Wright.

Wright described the Master Bedroom wing as a luxurious attachment with an unending

balcony. The glorious arrangement goes hand in hand with Frank Lloyd

Wright’s designing attitude.

THE ROBBIE HOUSE

FREDERICK C. ROBBIEThe Robbie House was built for a young businessman by the name of Frederick C. Robbie. He asked Frank Lloyd Wright to design him a house with a “different” look. He asked for a private house that his children could play in.

ROBBIE HOUSE NOW

Today the Robbie House is a historical landmark. You a can take a walk and see the limestone windowsills and the beautiful 174 art glass windows. This house shows Frank Lloyd Wright’s unique design, from its beautiful planes to its remarkable furniture.

The Great Guggenheim

By: Dausen Anderson

Timeline• 1939- The Museum of Non-Objective is established

by Soloman R. Guggenheim.• 1943-Frank Lloyd Wright received a letter from Hilla

Rebay commissioning him to build the Guggenheim Museum.

• 1959-Guggenheim Museum’s construction is finished.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Design• This building had the design of ziggurat

(a stepped or winding pyramidal temple), elevators that took the visitors to the exit in less than thirty seconds, and the buildings rooms were put together like a sliced fruit with individual sections yet connected for easy access to the other rooms.

• Frank had many challenges along the way which included angry clients, worried art directors, annoyed city officials, and the publics opinion!

Nature provided a secure place to put the museum with lots of privacy and it helped Mr. Wright experiment with the idea of blending his building in with it’s surroundings.

• 1. Hilla Rebay (foundation's curator and museum director)

• 2. Solomon Guggenheim (owner)• 3. Frank Lloyd Wright (designer of

Guggenheim).

People involved in building the Guggenheim Museum:

First built in 1890, it was burned down on purpose because of low tourist attraction, then rebuilt by

Frank Lloyd Wright.

Imperial Hotel

The People

• Many architects thought he was crazy because of the landscape. The idea of trying to build a hotel on a marsh was crazy. Wright decided to put planks on the marsh so it could with stand an earthquake and sort of float on the marsh. He even took extra precautions and had a pool built so the walls could be wetted down to stop the building for burning.

Imperial Hotel 2

• Its form looks like its logo(the logo is in the shape of a capital H).

• The rooms are the same shape and the public rooms are smaller but taller and have an I going through the H.

• The 8.3 magnitude earthquake destroyed buildings and caused millions in damage but the Imperial Hotel still stood tall.

1923 The Great Tokyo Earthquake

• Through the war the Imperial Hotel remained unscratched even in the bombing of Tokyo.

• During the war the hotel was commandeering for a period by the Occupation forces and managed by the US Government. Then later returned to its owner.

WW II

• The Imperial Hotel is now gone and replaced by the new Imperial Hotel that has a tower addition.

• The new owners are Imperial Hotel, Ltd.

Present

Our trip to Spring Green, Wisconsin

This is Romeo and Juliet, the

windmill.