American architect, 1867 to 1959, who over a seventy year career invented the Prairie house, preached an organic architecture grown from site and material, and produced in Fallingwater, Taliesin, the Johnson Wax building and the spiral Guggenheim Museum some of the most original buildings of the twentieth century. Eight of his works are inscribed together on the World Heritage List.
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Defining ContributionOrganic architecture; the Prairie house; Fallingwater and the Guggenheim 1 Frank Lloyd Wright
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Awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1949.
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The flowing interiors of the Prairie houses opened the modern open plan.
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Frank Lloyd Wright is organic architecture leading and defining figure.
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Awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1941.
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Wright was among the architects featured in the 1932 Museum of Modern Art exhibition
Frank Lloyd Wright coined Usonian for his own affordable American house designs.
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Ando traveled to study buildings by masters including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Wright worked at Adler and Sullivan and called Sullivan his Lieber Meister.
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Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Additional Source Robie House (Wikipedia)Frederick C. Robie House, lead section
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Pritzker Architecture Prize: Jorn Utzon biography
Influenced: Jorn Utzon, Biography page bodyQuote, Influenced: Jorn Utzon, Biography page body
An admirer of the ideas of Gunnar Asplund, as well as Frank Lloyd Wright while still in school, Utzon acknowledges that Aalto, Asplund and Wright were all major influences in his own work.
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In Style: Organic Architecture, intro: exemplified organic architecture in FallingwaterView the Source Robie House (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationWorks Designed: Robie House, Frederick C. Robie House, lead sectionView the Source Tadao Ando (Wikipedia)
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