Frank Lloyd Wright House

Frank Lloyd Wright house

Frank Lloyd Wright was born on the 8th of June 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA and he died on the 9th of April 1959, in Phoenix, Arizona. He was a famous American architect.
In 1887, he moved to Chicago in Illinois. He worked there for architecture companies belonging to L. Silsbee then for Adler and Sullivan (1856-1924). These latter ones represent the school from Chicago, and Wright worked there for six years on individual houses projects. Here he was assigned the essential part of his formation and his inspiration in this domain. During this period he married Catherine Tobin, and they had six children. In 1889, he borrowed 5000$ to Sullivan to build a house in Oak Park, whose style announces his future achievements.
Life Magazine described his own house looking like a woman swimming, naked, carried by the water flowing, fresh, and sliding, like a song. He said that his house was aerodynamic. Architecture is for him the essence of his life.
Wright is famous for a specific type of house, small, with only one storey, without garage or too much store room. Usonian is a complex term, used by Frank Lloyd Wright to show his vision about USA landscape, including city planning and organic architecture, whose creator and promoter he was. Organic architecture is a term, a perspective, an interpretation, a philosophy and a concrete manner of architecture to construct structures and buildings promoting the harmony between human habitat and nature, which is realized by designing buildings, interiors, and annexes such as human work is harmoniously integrated in nature, becoming a fluent component of the place, a continuum from nature through habitat to nature.
The term usonian was used instead of American, in order to describe the unique landscape of the New World, different from the landscape of the other continents, and especially free from any architectural conventions or restrictions.
There were up to 100 houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for American families with a medium income, starting with the year 1936.
They were usually designed following the shape of the letter L, in order to match a terraced garden, built on cheap land plots, which had weird shapes, as a result of dividing a land area in plots of variable size and shapes.

The houses were designed according to Wright’s prevalent architectural concept and to his organic architecture. Thus, the harmonious use of the space available, a design integrated in the landscape of the place, the use of local materials, flat roofs, which assure natural ventilation (thus improving the capacity of the cooling and heating of the house), maximum natural light and floor heating were permanent aspects of these houses. Cars weren’t parked in a garage, but under a very simple structure, without walls, but with a roof.
He did not design only small structures, but he also proposed in 1956, a project which could have been the highest structure in the world, with a height of about 1 mile, but unfortunately it was not carried out.