This document provides a biography of famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It details his early life and education, his pioneering work developing the Prairie School style and creating low-slung, horizontal structures like Fallingwater. It discusses his personal troubles and contributions to modern architecture through his Usonian homes and other works like the Robie House, Westcott House, and Guggenheim Museum. The document outlines Wright's innovative concepts of organic architecture that complemented natural surroundings.
World Information Architecture-Day-NYC-2013-Notes-on-KeynotesRichard D. Herring
Notes taken during the Keynote presentations and Panel Discussion of Dan Klyn, Lou Rosenfeld, Christine Wodtke, and Abby (the IA) Covert. High-level presentations designed to inspire and connect archtiectural ideas to shaping information into "information" and virtual spaces.
World Information Architecture-Day-NYC-2013-Notes-on-KeynotesRichard D. Herring
Notes taken during the Keynote presentations and Panel Discussion of Dan Klyn, Lou Rosenfeld, Christine Wodtke, and Abby (the IA) Covert. High-level presentations designed to inspire and connect archtiectural ideas to shaping information into "information" and virtual spaces.
Louis Henry Sullivan was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1856. He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year. He worked as a draftsman for Furness and Hewitt in Philadelphia and for William Le Baron Jenney in Chicago. In July 1874, Sullivan traveled to Europe where he studied in the Vaudremer studio at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
For more information and detailed presentation on other Legendary Architects, visit us at - www.archistudent.net/architects-and-their-works/
• Chicago School wasa school of
architects active in Chicago in the late
19th, and at the turn of the 20th century.
• tt is also known as Commercial Style
and American Renaissance Style.
Theory Of Design - Louis Sullivan. Buildings covered in this presentation are - Auditorium Building (Chicago) , Wainwright Building, Carson Pierie Scott and company building, transportation building, louis sullivan bungalow ,
Louis Henry Sullivan was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1856. He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year. He worked as a draftsman for Furness and Hewitt in Philadelphia and for William Le Baron Jenney in Chicago. In July 1874, Sullivan traveled to Europe where he studied in the Vaudremer studio at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
For more information and detailed presentation on other Legendary Architects, visit us at - www.archistudent.net/architects-and-their-works/
• Chicago School wasa school of
architects active in Chicago in the late
19th, and at the turn of the 20th century.
• tt is also known as Commercial Style
and American Renaissance Style.
Theory Of Design - Louis Sullivan. Buildings covered in this presentation are - Auditorium Building (Chicago) , Wainwright Building, Carson Pierie Scott and company building, transportation building, louis sullivan bungalow ,
2. Early life
• Born Franklin Lincoln Wright. Changed
middle name after parents divorced.
• Born in Richmond Center Wisconsin.
• went to University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dropped out after two semesters.
3. • Married, started career designing prairie
houses
• After 20 years of marriage fell in love with
Mamah Borthwick Cheney, wife of man that
commissioned him to design house.
• Eloped and moved to Italy.
• alienated from the architecture community
in the US.
4. • 1911 moved back to Wisconsin after
personal life settled.
• Built house on his mothers land.
• While working in Chicago servant light
Wright’s house on fire and murdered his
wife and 6 others with an axe.
• Continued designing architecture and
remarried.
• Died in 1959 while still designing buildings.
5. Contributions to
american architecture
• Created Organic Architecture.
• Building is supposed to come out of its
surroundings and compliment it.
• supposed to serve the person occupying
the building.
• feels like part of the environment, not
intrusive
21. New York City
Take elevator to top and walk to floor of building
circular
took 16 years
22. Influence in Suburban Design
Prefabrication and efficiency of in building
Slab on grade foundations
Simplified construction techniques
Usonian Design
Mechanization
Developed textile block block system
Precast concrete blocks locked together
Alice Millard House
Samuel Freeman House