Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright is born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, the 8th June of 1867, at the end of American Civil War and dead in Phoenix, Arizona, the 9th April of 1959, at the beginning of Space Age. Wright is considered one the precursors of Modern Architecture and his thinking keep inspiring designers nowadays.
Passionate of nature, Wright had as source of inspiration the growing rules of plants; from root to stalk, from stalk to flower and finally to fruit. This sense of indivisibility and integrity, is named by himself “organic architecture”. It may be appropriated to “time”, to “place” and to “humanity”. Wright develops continuously this three subjects to his projects, and none of them can progress without the other two. Each part is attached to the whole, as the whole is attached to single parts, into an organic entity. These are the interests which carry him on to select the subject of the single family habitation houses (“prairie houses”), which will represent a decisive aspect of his first period of activity.
In 1932, Wright founds the community of Taliesin where students coming from all around the world, still nowadays, can attend the school. In his 72 years dedicated to Architecture, Wright has carried out 1141 projects between drawings and designs, from whom 532 have been completed.
Date
InParadiso Gallery, 9 - 20 November 2008
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