Frank Lloyd Wright

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Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright

The Master of the trade. A looser as for his personal life. Strange, since his motto (from an Emerson poem) is so very valuable:

"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

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Pictures below are mostly my own.
Let's see - we'd best discuss his work per style (period) he went through. These being:

Shingle-style
"Chicago School"
Prairie Style
Western concrete / Textile block
Usonian
Other

Or go to some more text and links...

Shingle

The Home and Studio (1889-1911); a bit of a mess.
	The Robert P. Parker House (1892); a typical bootleg period house.
The Thomas H. Gale House (1892); a second typical bootleg period house.
	The Walter H. Gale House (1893); a third typical bootleg period house.
The Francis J. Woolley House (1893); yet another typical bootleg period house.
	The Chauncey I. Williams House (1895).
The Nathan G. Moore House (1895). Because he needed the money, FLlW stooped to the Tudor style. And to his horror was afterwards swamped with commissions...
	The Harry C. Goodrich House (1896); Already moving towards a bit of Chicago style.
The George W. Smith House (1895-8). Yet another classic.
	Unity Temple (designed 1904, opened 1908)

Chicago school

The William H. Winslow House (1894) with the double-hung windows that FLlW so disliked ("Like guillotines")
	The (Rollin) Furbeck House (1897); quite elegant.
The James Charnley residence (1891); ahead of its time, still some sort of oddity in FLlW's works.

Prairie

Click to enlarge the Robie House (interior)

The Frederick C. Robie House (1906). The classic. My pictures are better than what is generally to be had on the web. Too bad one isn't allowed to photograph the interior.

There's others, too

	The E. Arthur Davenport House (1901). A mix of styles.
The William G. Fricke House (1901). An early one, still quite heavy on vertical elements.
	The Frank Wright Thomas House (1901), "The Harem". Ahead of its time, although bleak.
The Ward Willits House (1901). Very consistent.
	The William E. Martin House (1902). Like a high-rise but well-balanced.
The Arthur Heurtley House (1902); impressive.
	The Darwin D. Martin House (1902). Huge. (With garage)
The George Barton House (1903); on the same complex as the Darwin D. Martin house; smallish but well-balanced.
	The Edwin H. Cheney House (1903). We stayed there. Watch the treasure of the Third Barrel Vault!!
The F.F. Tomek House (1904); Still for sale, for the bargain price of only $975.000...
	The Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House (designed 1904, built 1909); there's more than one Thomas Gale house, you know...
The W.R. Heath House (1905), looks quite large. We hold this summary of prairie style in higher regard than usual.
	The Susan Lawrence Dana (Thomas) House (1905); the picture is too small to capture the grandeur of the house, and will be replaced by my own, later, and enhanced with interior picture of my own. Too bad no good pictures of the interior are available on the web! (The Dana-Thomas site has gone astray)
Peter A. Beachy House (1906), considered a prime example of prairie style but we find it rather disappointing.
	The River Forest Tennis Club (1906). Hard to get a good picture.
	Edward R. Hills / DeCaro House (1906). Considered a prairie style house, though I tend to see quite some Chicago if not shingle style elements still.
Dr. Wm.H. Copeland House (1908-9) interior remodeling.
	Isabel Roberts House (1908), hugely underestimated.
Avery Coonley House (1908) and playhouse (1912). What a site. B-i-g! The first two pictures (from opposite sides) are taken some 100m. apart.
Meyer May House (1908). Beautiful, well-balanced, both the exterior and the interior. Often mentioned as having Roman brick, but that's false. It's normal brick, for once!
	G.C. Stockman House (1908), almost identical to the Hunt house.
Alexander Davidson House (1908), in Buffalo, for a change.
	J. Kibben Ingalls House (1909).
William E. Drummond House (1910), ... by William E. Drummond! (An FLlW-assistant, though)
	Oscar B. Balch House (1911)
Harry S. Adams house (1913)

Western concrete / Textile block

The Charles Ennis House (1923); later renamed Ennis-Brown House in recognition of the extensive restoration work by the Brown family. Relatively many pics here, to instruct of the Mayan temple like impression.
Not without luxury, though...

Arizona Biltmore Hotel (1927)
	Aline Barnsdale Hollyhock House (1917), clearly a Mayan temple...

Usonian

"Usonian" since Wright had searched for a catch-phrase for real American architecture. So United States Of North (I) America-N it was to be.
For his typical style, at least. A subset of which is also called Usonian Automatic, for the style was supposed to focus on easily mass-produced houses. Not that they turned out to be too cheap, and the build and finishing qualities were very much up to standard, with perfection sought in the finish. But still, easily configured with a consistent style (if not elements, one sees these differ time and again...).
Sigh, too much text already. On to some pictures:

I.N. Hagan House (Kentuck Knob, 1954)
	The Gregor S. Affleck House (1940)
The Melvin Maxwell Smith House (1946). Beautiful indeed.

Errr, more Usonians may follow.

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Other, various style through the ages

Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. House: Fallingwater ... (1935)
	Annunciation Greek Orthodox church (1956)
Scoville Park fountain (1903) (with pa, with All-American flag)
	Solomon R. Guggeheim museum (New York, completed 1956)
Johnson & Son Wax Co. Administration Building and Research Tower (1936-1950)
	Marin County Civic Center (1957)

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Other material, links

Click to enlarge Sullivan's first skyscraper

Sullivan's first skyscraper. Showing why the master teacher couldn't keep F Ll W in.

Are these all, then? No, certainly not. Frank Lloyd Wright had hundreds of his designs built. Some have been demolished, but there are a great many that are not even mentioned or shown on this page that are by others considered at least equally important. Just as examples: Taliesin and Taliesin West and Affleck and Anderton Court Shops and Beth Sholom Synagogue and Bogk residence and Ravine Bluffs Development and Wingspread and Unitarian Meeting House and Lindholm Service station and Imperial Hotel and La Miniatura and Price Tower and First Christian Church...
But hey, it's my taste that counts here, isn't it? And I tend to think of the Taliesins as being overrated, and too much connected with the sectarian community ideas to be able to function as icons.
Hm:
Click to enlarge Beth Sholom synagogue

Therefore, if in search of other buildings, check out the links:

Orazio Centaro's Art Images on the Web: quite complete, many (the better) pictures;
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation: nice layout, quite complete;
The All Wright Site: a good intro;
The Wright Web Guide: good links;
Wright on the Web: more of the same - comment;
Wright in Oak Park: local, with routes, etc.

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Oh, and by the way, if you're planning to see the sites, why don't you give the Willow Tree Inn a try. See www.willowtreeinn.com, and
Click to enlarge the Willow Tree Inn