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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Brilliant Mind of an Architect
Monica DanforthHUM 2250
Professor Jones29 March 2011
Dropped out of high school Parents divorced=distant relationship with
father Creativity started with Froebel toys invented
by Friedrich Froebel
Biography
Early Beginnings
Compared goals of an architect to musician
Rhythm and balance “Form becomes
Feeling” Opened printing
press Started with
mechanical drawings of various structures
$35 a month Architecture degree
at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Architecture not popular at the time
Dropped out of college and moved to Chicago
Chicago 1887
Large population Center of shipping
and railways Destroyed in the
Great Fire of 1871 Created more
opportunities for Wright
Modernism
• The Larkin Building• One of Wright’s
first industrial works• Intended to give
workers a more human working environment
HOW IT WAS BUILT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CVKU3ErrGM