Frank Lloyd Wright began his architectural career working under Louis Sullivan, borrowing money to start his own designs. He emphasized creating structures that harmonized with their landscapes, as seen in his use of natural materials and organic designs, such as in Taliesin West and the Guggenheim Museum. His architectural style featured characteristics like open floor plans, broad roofs, and the seamless integration of interiors and exteriors.

1. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

2. • Wright’s career started as a draftsman
under joseph Lyman Silsbee.
• he Feeling that he was underpaid he
quit and found work as a designer at the
firm of Beers, Clay, and Dutton.
• Wright soon realized that he was not
ready to handle building design by
himself; he left his new job to return to
Joseph Silsbee.
• After less than a year had passed in
Silsbee's office wright worked as a
draftsman for louis sullivan,.
Beginning of architectural career

3. WRIGHT AND SULLIVAN
 Wright then borrowed a sum of 5000 $ from louis Sullivan
promised to work for him for five long years.
 constructed his first home in which he boldly started displaying
his conception of architecture and in return
 To overcome the money crisis and supplement his income he
started working independently designing the bootleg houses
along with working in the firm.
 As louis Sullivan got to know of independent works of the wright
he was fired.
Bootleg houses by FL Wright Oak park house
FL Wright drafting

4. WRIGHTS DESIGN
PHILOSOPHIES

5.  Wright always emphasised that Structure should not be just built
on the site but should belong to the site.”
“The good building is not the one that hurts the landscape but the one which makes landscape more beautiful than it
was before the building was built”
-F L Wright
TALIESIN WEST, SCOTTSDALE
STYLE: ORGANIC
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM,NEW YORK
STYLE: MODERN MOVEMENT

6. Use of materials in their natural state.
TALIESIN, SPRING GREEN
 The basic building material for its construction was
limestone.
 It was stacked in such a way that it resembles the
natural occurrence of the limestone in
stratifications.
 He did so because he intended to create a structure
which is indigenous to the landscape
TALIESEN WEST, SCOTSDALE
 in its design the architect used locally available
rocks to make the building truthful to the landscape
surrounding it.
 And the stone masonry he used popularly came to
be known as desert masonry.

7. BRINGING THE ROOFLINE OF THE STRUCTURE DOWN TO HORIZONTAL LINE
 One of the most important characteristic of the prairie style of architecture which he developed was
transition of roofs from steep slopes to very gentle ones.
Oak park house Moore house Winslow house Robbie house Moore house
REVELATION OF LARGER SPACES THROUGH SMALLER SPACES
 Revelation of larger spaces of the house through smaller spaces
was yet another characteristic of the prairie style housing.
 Ex: the entry to the play room in the oak park house was through
narrow vaulted passage.
 He used vaults excessively because he felt that atics were useless
space.

8.  The first step in his design was the development of the plan of the house which had a plenty
of open spaces separated from one another by simple architectural devices instead of
partitions, walls or doors. This was called the open plan.
SOME OF THE OTHER TYPICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HOUSES WHICH HE DESIGNED
WERE:
FREE FLOWING SPACES IN THE INTERIOR
OPEN PLAN
1. Broad, overhanging roofs.
2. And horizontal window bands.
Falling waters
interiors
Taliesin interiors
Robbie house interiors

9. WRIGHT’S DESIGNS
 TALIESIN WEST
 SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM
MUSEUM, MANHATTAN
SCOTSDALE,
ARIZONA

10. TALIESIN WEST
 In this design wright wanted to bring the outside
in.
 He emphasised on discarding the unnecessary
visual obstructions to the exteriors.
 The building incorporates into itself an innovative
concept of desert masonry in which the flat faces
of the native rocks face the surroundings and the
gaps are filled by mortar.
 The result was a brilliant desert mosaic which
became the part of the Arizona desert and
enriched the desert landscape.
 Colour and the texture of the desert surrounded
the building.
 His vision of providing a free flow in the interiors
was elaborately displayed in the design.

11. R GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
 Like all his other designs this
masterpiece of wright was the
one respecting the landscape of
the region.
 Centred in the space is a huge
atrium, rising 92' in height to an
expansive glass dome.
 Along the sides of this atrium is
a continuous ramp uncoiling
upwards for six storeys.
 Wright came up with 749
sketches and six sets of working
drawings before he could finally
like the design.
 This building not only stands as
a brilliant sculpture but also
enhances the beauty of its
landscape.