Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959) is amongst the most famous architects of all time, and is known as the greatest American architect. His personal life was filled with publicized difficulties and scandal, and he was well-known for his flamboyant and charismatic personality, his innovation modern design philosophies, and for the enormous number of realised and unrealised projects (approximately 450 buildings and another 550 unrealized projects) completed during his career which spanned seventy four years. / When he developed his Prairie style of design in the mid-1880s, inspired by the teachings of his mentor Louis Sullivan, he began a revolution in domestic architecture, firstly in America, but which then exerted a powerful impact on other Western countries. He and his work became icons of a new modern organic architecture. In Europe he influenced progressive architects and contributed to the development of Modernism when the spirit of his work and ideas was adopted and then reflected in the creation of the Modernist aesthetic. / Thesis (MArchitecture)--University of South Australia, 2005.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/267375 |
| Creators | Law, Jade. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
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