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Wright, Frank Lloyd
1869 - Born in Richland Center, Wisconsin
1893 - began working on his own independent from Sullivan Wright; developed practice of organic architecture, blending buildings into their environments, particularly in "prairie style" using expansive structures and earthy, natural colors and textures inspired by landscapes of American Midwest and West
1904 - one of his early works include The Larkin Company Administration Building
1906 - also made the design for Unity Church in Oak Park, III
1911 - designed Taliesin home in Spring Green, Wisconsin
1915-1922
- Imperial Hotel in Tokyo
1936 - Falling Water house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania
1938-1959
- designed the Taliesin West
1955 - wrote "An Organic Architecture" 1939, "An American Architecture"
1959 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City
- one of the most innovative and influential icons in modern architecture died on April 9
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- "New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it."
- "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
- "Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived."
- "They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California."
- "An idea is salvation by imagination."
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