Frank Lloyd Wright: Nature Is The Only Soul Of God

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"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we 'll find it in the nature of that thing." Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright is acclaimed as the 20th century 's greatest architect. He was a genius architect wielding a T-square and a master builder who embraced nature. Wright was born in Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin, some 20 miles west of Spring Green where he eventually built his beloved home...all 37,000 square feet of it...Taliesin (Tally-ESS-in).

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Prairie School houses are most usually two-story open-plan structures with extended single-story wings emphasizing the horizontal aspect. Other usually seen features of the Prairie School houses are ribbon windows, gently sloping roofs, prominent overhangs, and hidden gardens. Wright 's interiors featured horizontal lines, natural materials, and built-in components stressing function. Wright 's Robie House (1906-10), was acclaimed as the greatest achievement of his Prairie School work and received considerable attention from European modernists in its …show more content…

He founded the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932 to provide training to young architects, and began to design a series of houses that he called Usonian, short for United States of North American. The Usonian houses were streamlined in design and construction, emphasizing harmony with nature, and were modestly priced. His Fallingwater (1935-39) vacation home suspended above a waterfall seemingly carved from the rock, went a long way to reestablish his professional

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