Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright was a famous architect who planned very interesting houses and other structures. He was born on June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin. After studying civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin, he moved to Chicago in 1887 where he met and married Catherine Tobin. He went to work as a draftsman with Adler and Sullivan. While working with Louis Sullivan, he began to independently construct model houses for Adler and Sullivan. In 1893 he started …

…Run, Pennsylvania. The exterior textures of his designs are of natural stone, concrete, and painted metal. Among his later works are the Millard House built in 1923, the First Unitarian Church was built in 1947 and the Guggenheim Museum was designed in 1957 and built in New York City. With his reputation assured on both sides of the Atlantic, Frank Lloyd Wright left a rich number of completed houses and buildings. He died on April 9, 1959 in Phoenix, Arizona.