Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the most influential architects
of the 20th century, came to Chicago in 1887. He found
employment with the noted architectural firm of
Adler & Sullivan, where Louis Sullivan taught him to create
buildings that expressed their time, place and technology,
rather than copy the architectural styles of the past.

Wright established his own practice in 1893, working
primarily on residential designs. By the early 1910s, he
had evolved highly original designs that integrated interior
and exterior spaces through the innovative use of local
materials. The influence of his work formed the basis of the
“Prairie School” of architecture.

In a prolific career that spanned more than six decades, each of Wright’s
designs reflected highly original architectural solutions, notably the structurally
innovative Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (1923), Fallingwater (1937), a home
cantilevered over a waterfall near Pittsburgh, and the spiral Guggenheim
Museum in New York City (1959).