frank lloyd wright

     

Fallingwater Johnson Wax Builing Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Trivia about frank lloyd wright

  • He coined the term "usonian" for his U.S. designs that were meant to bring beauty & humanity to ordinary people
  • The Grady Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University was the last major public building that he designed
  • A Phillips 66 in Cloquet, Minnesota is the only functioning gas station designed by this man
  • Ayn Rand wrote to him, "I felt that 'The Fountainhead' had not quite completed its destiny until I had heard from you about it"
  • Canberra designer Walter Burley Griffin served as this American architect's assistant from 1901 to 1906
  • In 1932 this U.S. architect wrote, "No house should ever be on any hill... it should be of the hill"
  • The Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma was designed by this great American architect
  • In 1893 this architect opened his own practice in Chicago; later he moved it to Oak Park
  • In 1932 he created the Taliesin fellowship for those wanting to learn organic architecture
  • He used a snail spiral design for the Guggenheim Museum & for the V.C. Morris Gift Shop in San Francisco
  • In 1939 this famous architect polished off his Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wisconsin
  • The Arizona Biltmore was inspired by the designs of this man who lived & worked at nearby Taliesin West
  • 900th floor please; during his 7-decade career, this architect made plans for a mile-high skyscraper
  • This U.S. architect designed his Usonian houses to be "integral to the life of the inhabitants"
  • His last important building, the Marin County Civic Ctr., was completed by his students at the Taliesin Foundation
  • The Times' article "Architecture's Dust-Up in the Desert" analyzed the school of architecture named for him
  • In 1887 he moved to Chicago & became a draftsman for architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee
  • His "Prairie Style" wasn't always comfy; he once quipped that he was almost always black & blue from his own furniture
  • Per his widow's wishes, this architect was moved from his native Wisconsin to Taliesin West in Arizona
  • He was the model for Howard Roark, the architect in Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
  • His original middle name was Lincoln; he changed it to Lloyd
  • This American's designs for the Imperial Hotel in Japan included the plates & furniture
  • "The doctor can bury his mistakes, but we can only advise clients to plant vines", said this architect
  • Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan once owned a museum devoted to this "Prairie Style" architect
  • This architect of Welsh descent named his homes in Wisconsin & Arizona for the Welsh poet Taliesin
  • The title of Nancy Horan's historical novel "Loving Frank" refers to this creator of Taliesin
  • In 2009 the Times liked "The Women", which dealt with this man's loves, like Mamah, who was murdered at Taliesin
  • From 1887 to 1893 he was chief draftsman for the Chicago firm of Adler & Sullivan
  • He designed the Imperial Hotel to withstand Tokyo's earthquakes; in 1923, it was one of the few buildings that did
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue)He did some early work on buildings as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1880s, assisting the construction supervisor of Science Hall
  • In 1916 this architect moved to Japan where he designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo
  • In 1943 the son of this Wisconsin-born architect sold the rights to his creation Lincoln Logs to Playskool
  • Prior to his '59 death, he was planning a mile-high skyscraper
  • The Johnson Wax Headquarters, designed by this late American, is on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Born June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin, he dreamed of moving to Chicago, with its soaring architecture