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    Storia Dell'Architettura II: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

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    This document provides an overview of the careers and influences of famous American architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Henry Sullivan. It notes that Frank Lloyd Wright was influential in American architecture and known for his natural and organic style. He rejected joining professional organizations but was later recognized for his contributions. Several of his Prairie style homes from 1899-1910 are listed. The document also summarizes Louis Sullivan's emphasis on "form follows function" and lists some of his influential writings on architecture and ornamentation. It provides details on Sullivan's Prairie house designs from the early 1900s.

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    Storia Dell'Architettura II: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

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    This document provides an overview of the careers and influences of famous American architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Henry Sullivan. It notes that Frank Lloyd Wright was influential in American architecture and known for his natural and organic style. He rejected joining professional organizations but was later recognized for his contributions. Several of his Prairie style homes from 1899-1910 are listed. The document also summarizes Louis Sullivan's emphasis on "form follows function" and lists some of his influential writings on architecture and ornamentation. It provides details on Sullivan's Prairie house designs from the early 1900s.

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    This document provides an overview of the careers and influences of famous American architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Henry Sullivan. It notes that Frank Lloyd Wright was influential in American architecture and known for his natural and organic style. He rejected joining professional organizations but was later recognized for his contributions. Several of his Prairie style homes from 1899-1910 are listed. The document also summarizes Louis Sullivan's emphasis on "form follows function" and lists some of his influential writings on architecture and ornamentation. It provides details on Sullivan's Prairie house designs from the early 1900s.

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    Storia Dell'Architettura II: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)

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    This document provides an overview of the careers and influences of famous American architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Henry Sullivan. It notes that Frank Lloyd Wright was influential in American architecture and known for his natural and organic style. He rejected joining professional organizations but was later recognized for his contributions. Several of his Prairie style homes from 1899-1910 are listed. The document also summarizes Louis Sullivan's emphasis on "form follows function" and lists some of his influential writings on architecture and ornamentation. It provides details on Sullivan's Prairie house designs from the early 1900s.

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    Storia DellArchitettura II

    Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)


    Every great architect is necessarily a great poet. He must be a great original
    interpreter of his time, his days, his age.
    -

    Noted for his influence in American architecture


    Natural and organic architecture
    The fountainhead
    Il pianoforte
    Automobile sempre rossi

    http://yorkutopias.blogspot.it/2008/02/building-utopia-frank-lloyd-wright-and.html

    Le Corbusier
    -

    Rejected the contemporary city


    In favour of greater centralisation and height of the city

    Years of the Prairie Houses (1899-1910)


    - Residence per Frederick C, Robie
    - Residence for Darwin
    - Frank Lloyd wright: always an individualist, never joined the Americian
    Instutitue of Architects. Nonetheless, the AIA recognized his immense
    contribution to Americian architecture by awarding him the AIA Gold Medal in
    1949. After his death in 1959,
    UNESCO Sites by Frank Lloyd Wright (search)

    Louis Henry Sullivan (1856 1924)


    Sullivan and the Lieber Meister
    -

    Form follows functions: Sullivan, Louis H, The Tall Office Building Artistically
    Considered, in Lippincotts Magazine, March 1896 pp 403 409
    Ornnament in Architecture, 1892, Sullivan, Louis H.,
    A system of Architectural Ornament According with a Philosophy of Mans
    Power, 1924

    Prairie Houses
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    Residence fo W.W. Willits, Highland Park, Illinois, 1901


    Robie House, Chicago, 1906 1909
    Residence for Darwin Martin, Buffalo, New York, 1903/5
    Residence for Arthur M. Heartley, Oak Park, Chicago

    A home in a Prairie Town, womans journals Feb 1901


    The fireplace was always designed to be in the centre of the house.

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