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Frank Llyod Wright is born in Wisconsin.
He was born to locally admired parents. His father was a well- known minister and his mother was a teacher. -
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Life of Frank Lloyd Wright
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Family moves to Massachuttes.
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Frank's mother gifts him with frobel blocks.
Frank spends much time playing with these blocks. He attributes many of his later designs and their geometrical design to have been influenced by his years of playing with these blocks. -
Frank is admitted to the Universite of Wisconsin- Madison.
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Frank drops out of college and arrives in Chicago looking for employment.
He finds a job at an architectural firn, Silsbee, as a draftsman. -
Frank marries Catherine Lee Tobin and designs their house.
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Frank designs Winslow House.
This house was designed by Frank Llyod Wright during his early years, and falls under one of his famous styles known as "prarie house." The Winslow house as well as other houses he designed at this time is very straightforward and incorporates very simple geomtetic elements. The bottom structure is long, horizontal and cmposed of rectangular windows that are outlined. The roof is a trapezoid. -
Wright and his family move closer to his work area, and he redesigns his house with a new studio.
This house is much different from the Winslow house. It contains much more complex geometric features. The studio is hexagonal and the house has triangular structures, along with rectangular and circular structures. It is much more complicated and intricate, at least from its exterior view. -
Frank opens up his home for young architects to study with him, creating the Taliesin Fellowship.
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Frank completes Fallingwater
Fallingwater is one of the most famous private residences ever built by Frank Llyod Wright. His plan was to incoporate the the geometry of the surrounding natural area with his structure. He used a different stone for all vertical structures and a different stone for all horizontal structures, making clear perpendicular images. The house has long horizontal, rectangular shaped structures at its front, which is contrasted by tall, rectangular shaped structures in the back. -
Frank Llyod Wright begins to design the Guggenhiem Museuem.
The Guggehiem Museum took Frank Llyod Wright 16 years to complete. It is considered to have become as famous as the art it houses. The museum has a central design, where visitors walk through a spiral ramp that outlines the center of the site, almost as though they are walking in concentric circles. The exterior and interior are completly circular, directly contrasting the tall, rectangular skyscrapers throughout New York City.
