1. Frank
Lloyd
Wright

2. Early life
• He was born in Richland, Wisconsin on June 8, 1867.
• His original name was Frank Lincoln Wright but he
changed it when his parents divorced.
• During his summers he worked on his Uncle James
farm in Spring Green , WI and it made him a strong
person.
• He then dropped out of high school to become an
architect.

3. The Innovation
• Wright didn’t like the Victorian style houses of his
time and ended up designing the house styles we live
in today.
• He made his houses with only doors for the
bathrooms and bedrooms.
• He created examples of the prairie style houses that
had low roofs that opened up into wide open spaces.
Most of his houses had a fireplace at the center. He
gained great fame for using only local materials in
the prairie style architecture.

4. Later On
• One of his most famous buildings was the
Robbie house built in Illinois. His prairie style
became so famous it spread world wide.
• Another one of his later creations was the
Imperial Hotel built in 1915.
• The final building he made was the
Guggenheim Museum. It seemed to mimic its
surroundings. He never got to see it because
he died before it was finished.

5. Frank Lloyd
Wright’s
Wingspread
Wingspread is a building in Racine
that is different and beautiful at
the same time. It was designed in
1909 with most of the rooms
flowing together to create many
rooms in one gigantic room…

6. You can see that the
rooms somehow flow
together in a graceful
manner.

7. If you look
closely you can
see a unique
design in the
Wingspread.
What’s your
favorite part?
Would you ever
want to visit it?
I know I would!!!

8. This is the design for Wingspread.

9. The staircase is connected to the
fireplace, two unique items in an
unique arrangement, very Frank
Lloyd Wright.

10. Wright described the Master Bedroom wing as a
luxurious attachment with an unending balcony.
The glorious arrangement goes hand in hand
with Frank Lloyd Wright’s designing attitude.

12. THE ROBBIE HOUSE

13. FREDERICK C. ROBBIE
The Robbie House was built for a
young businessman by the name
of Frederick C. Robbie. He asked
Frank Lloyd Wright to design him a
house with a “different” look. He
asked for a private house that his
children could play in.

14. ROBBIE HOUSE NOW
Today the Robbie House is a historical landmark. You a can take a walk
and see the limestone windowsills and the beautiful 174 art glass
windows. This house shows Frank Lloyd Wright’s unique design, from
its beautiful planes to its remarkable furniture.

15. The Great Guggenheim
By: Dausen Anderson

16. Timeline
• 1939- The Museum of Non-Objective is established
by Soloman R. Guggenheim.
• 1943-Frank Lloyd Wright received a letter from Hilla
Rebay commissioning him to build the Guggenheim
Museum.
• 1959-Guggenheim Museum’s construction is
finished.

17. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Design
Nature provided a secure place to put
the museum with lots of privacy and • This building had the design of ziggurat
it helped Mr. Wright experiment with (a stepped or winding pyramidal
the idea of blending his building in temple), elevators that took the visitors
with it’s surroundings. to the exit in less than thirty seconds,
and the buildings rooms were put
together like a sliced fruit with individual
sections yet connected for easy access to
the other rooms.
• Frank had many challenges along the
way which included angry clients,
worried art directors, annoyed city
officials, and the publics opinion!

18. People involved in building the
Guggenheim Museum:
• 1. Hilla Rebay (foundation's curator and
museum director)
• 2. Solomon Guggenheim (owner)
• 3. Frank Lloyd Wright (designer of
Guggenheim).

19. Imperial Hotel
First built in 1890, it was burned
down on purpose because of low
tourist attraction, then rebuilt by
Frank Lloyd Wright.

20. The People
• Many architects thought he was crazy because
of the landscape. The idea of trying to build a
hotel on a marsh was crazy. Wright decided to
put planks on the marsh so it could with stand
an earthquake and sort of float on the marsh.
He even took extra precautions and had a pool
built so the walls could be wetted down to
stop the building for burning.

21. Imperial Hotel 2
• Its form looks like its logo(the logo is in the
shape of a capital H).
• The rooms are the same shape and the public
rooms are smaller but taller and have an I
going through the H.

22. 1923 The Great Tokyo Earthquake
• The 8.3 magnitude earthquake destroyed
buildings and caused millions in damage but
the Imperial Hotel still stood tall.

23. WW II
• Through the war the Imperial Hotel remained
unscratched even in the bombing of Tokyo.
• During the war the hotel was commandeering
for a period by the Occupation forces and
managed by the US Government. Then later
returned to its owner.

24. Present
• The Imperial Hotel is now gone and replaced
by the new Imperial Hotel that has a tower
addition.
• The new owners are Imperial Hotel, Ltd.

25. Our trip to Spring Green, Wisconsin

33. This is Romeo
and Juliet, the
windmill.