Frank Lloyd Wright was the most famous America architect, even though not the most popular or successful one, he had set himself the task. Designing distinctive and varied architecture for the diverse terrains of a nation that stretched over the valleys, deserts, woods, and mountains, spanning an entire continent. He was the herald of thesis that architecture should express its time, its site, its builders, and its materials. Frank believed that the U.S. as a new nation with a new society on a new society on a new frontier with a new technology, should express those unique conditions and should build its special aspirations into buildings that would be distinctively and wholly its own---a new style that represents American. He called it architecture of democracy.
His design was very original, special and uninhibited that even the most recent students still see his works that is talent. Wright was born on June 8, 1869, in Richland Center, Wis. The experience of working on his uncle’s farm helped him develop a passion for the land. He went to Madison High School and left in 1885 before graduating. He worked as draftsman and took a few courses in civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin while still working.
Wright went to Chicago and worked briefly for an architect in 1887, then joined the firm of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. Wright was deeply influenced by Sullivan, although their relationship ended in a rupture when Sullivan found out that Wright was designed houses on his own. Wright always acknowledged his indebtedness to Sullivan and referred to him as “lieber Meister.” Wright opened his own office in 1893.
The houses Wright built in Buffalo and in Chicago and its suburbs before WWI gained international fame for Wright wherever there were avant-garde movements in the arts. Especially in the countries where industrialization had brought new problems about industries and urban and had developed clients who were interested about modernism. There are many famous constructions in world wide, for example, the Netherlands in Germany, and the Imperial Hotel in Japan. In the United States, Wright’s clients were exceptional individuals and small, adventurous institutions, not governments or national corporations. He never received any large corporate or governmental commission.
Early, Wright insisted upon declaring the presence of pure cubic mass; the color and texture of raw stone, brick and copper; and the sharp-etched punctures made by unornamented windows and doors in sheer walls (Charnley House, Chicago is a good example.)