Frank Lloyd Wright: An Inspiration to Future Architects

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From his beginnings in a little town in Wisconsin, the rise of a great architect commenced his journey. No one has attained his level of expertise in the architectural field. Frank Lloyd Wright’s accomplishments are unmatched, was inspired by natural and simplistic designs, and his career flourished by his ingenuity.
Early on in his career, in the United States, gave Frank Lloyd Wright a varied amount of experiences. He was employed be Louis Sullivan for the architecture firm in Chicago by the name of Adler and Sullivan. He was later on accused with a breach of his contract with them; this opened up an opportunity for Wright to go explore different types of architecture on his own. Some of Wright’s important public commissions were the Unity Temple in Oak Park and Larkin Company Administration Building in Buffalo, New York. These works had the potential to expose himself, as an independent architect, to the world.
Looking for a change in pace Frank Lloyd Wright came to the decision that he would go to Europe for an extended vacation, of sorts. While there “Wright worked on two publication of his work, published by Ernest Wasmuth, one of drawings known as Wasmuth Portfolio, Ausgeführte Bauten und Enwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright, one of photographs, Ausgeführte Bauten, both released in 1911” (Europe and Japan). These works brought in international acknowledgement to his designs.
Towards the end of the vacation he was asked to undertake a job of designing the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo Japan in 1946, he was 49 years old.
Japan is a frontier in many ways, and “For Frank Lloyd Wright, Japan was a muse and possibly a savior”(Birmingham) of his career. Frank Lloyd Wright used this project to boost his career, which was crumbling around him...

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...o say that there is no American architect who has ever lived who has done as much to realize his vision of what a perfect architecture might be than Frank Lloyd Wright.”

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s The Westcott House. The Westcott House Foundation. Web. 6 May 2014.
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