Posted on 16/12/05
Confessions of a former Frank Lloyd Wright groupie
Mention Frank Lloyd Wright to an architecture buff and be prepared to engage in very serious conversation. Wright, the only architect famous enough to go by just his initials, is widely considered to be the most important American building designer of all time. He was born in 1867, and his career spanned roughly from the last 15 years of Queen Victoria's reign to the booming Eisenhower years. He not only left us with landmark buildings -- Manhattan's Guggenheim museum, completed in 1959, the year of his death; the iconic "Fallingwater" house; and his two Taliesin architecture schools -- he defined the shape of something much more humble: the modern suburban bungalow.
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