About Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959)

Widely credited with revolutionizing American architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959) produced one innovation after another over the course of his long career. If contradictions make for interesting people, Wright was surely one of this century's most fascinating Americans. Wright the modernist was also Wright the romantic, iconoclast, and champion of the individual, and the products of his contradictory sensibility offer a sassy repudiation of his European contemporaries chilly, Everyman modernism. His genius for architectural synthesis transformed his field; a hundred years after his earliest solo commissions, Wright's designs have become so entwined in the vocabulary of American architecture that we take his radical ideas for granted.

Photo: OBMA. ® F.L. Wright Fdn.

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