Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. He spent a few semesters in the Engineering School at the University of Wisconsin before leaving for Chicago in 1887. At the age of twenty, he was hired as an apprentice in the office of J. Lyman Silsbee who designed All Souls’ Unitarian Church where Wright’s uncle was a minister. The young architect’s first work was nominally a Silsbee commission—…showed first 75 words of 607 total…

…showed last 75 words of 607 total…and far removed from the organic architecture that characterized his earlier work. These criticisms notwithstanding, three of Wright’s buildings of this decade were designated by the American Institute of Architects to be retained as examples of his architectural contribution to American culture (Summers). Frank Lloyd Wright died on April 29, 1959, in Phoenix, Arizona. It is said that the last project on his drawing board was a simple an affordable prefabricated concrete-block house (Blake p86-