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
