Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architect

”Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architect”

From the time he was a young boy he was an aspiring architect. He had always planned on becoming an architect, and he eventually became one. He lived an American dream everyone hopes for (to make a living off of what one loves and to gain fame), though he may not have known it at the time. He had a goal, a dream and he didn’t let one thing get in his way. Starting from the bottom wasn’t easy for Frank Lloyd Wright but he did it and now lives on in history. There were many hardships and low dips in the road but at the end he became the unique and memorable artist he dreamed of becoming. He is remembered generally as an architect who used native elements in his homes. Frank Lloyd Wright was a great architect who is remembered for utilizing and incorporating the natural elements of an area in the building of his houses.

“The most celebrated American architect of the Chicago school was Frank Lloyd Wright” (Stokstad). This is very true but how did he get to this point in his life? He did it by working long hours as both a child and adult. On June 8, 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Wright would later change his middle name to Lloyd after his mother. He was born to Anna Lloyd Jones and William Cary Wright as his mother’s first child but his father’s fourth child. Through his mothers eyes Wright was an amazing child born of a “prophetic birth” she once told him. Though she had other children she always showed favoritism toward Wright. His mother was a teacher and told him many stories and legends about the outdoors and of her original home in Whales. His mother loved to teach young children but

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... first Usonian home, The Racine in Wisconsin, Falling Water (a vacation home built around and over a waterfall) at Bear Run, Pennsylvania, Taliesin West, and countless others, though a lot of his homes have been destroyed over the years. Frank Lloyd Wright’s career ended at age ninety-two on April 9, 1959 the day he died (Wright and Twombly).

Remembered for architectural genius, Frank Lloyd Wright lived a life of achievement. He had rough times and definitely wasn’t a perfect man but he didn’t let that get in his way. He kept his head up and continued on. He let everyone know what he believed and expressed it through his buildings. He became an architect because he loved it and enjoyed it. He fulfilled his childhood dreams, something that most people never do. He worked all of his life to get better. He was creative, inspiring, and strange; he was an artist.