Frank Lloyd Wright

      Frank Lloyd Wright was a very well known American architect.  He designed more than 1,000 projects and finished nearly 500 of those.  He influenced the architectural world in many ways.  The different styles that he undertook in designing his buildings were very unique.  His organic architecture was truly breathtaking.  In these homes he used many of the materials that surrounded the area.  He also used the natural landscapes to his advantage and built the homes on top of them while accentuating some of the features.  He is also well known for both his Prairie style homes as well as his Usonian style homes.  Although many of his works took place during the early to mid 1990s, they still seem extremely modern in today’s eyes.

      One of his most well known Organic homes is Fallingwater, which was built in southwestern Pennsylvania.  This house is truly remarkable.  It makes excellent use of the natural surroundings.  This home was partly built directly on top of a waterfall, which adds amazing aesthetic value.  This house also makes spectacular use of different cantilevers, which was seen as architectural “genius” during that time.  Wright got some of his stylistic ideas and features of this house from Japanese architecture.

      This house has received many different awards and recognition’s such as “the best all-time work of American architecture” in 2007 as well as twenty-ninth on the list of America’s Favorite Architecture according to the AIA.  Frank Lloyd Wright is an excellent influence on me as I look to architecture for my future.