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(1920s) Frank Lloyd Wright
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights
People
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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<p>(OCTOBER 7, 1929)
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<p> Frank Lloyd Wright is rated a very original, great and
influential architect indeed, although personally impulsive and
improvident. Last week certain of his Chicago friends decided
that they could at least overcome his improvidence. They made
him become an institution with a charter. Frank Lloyd Wright,
Inc. has issued $50,000 worth of preferred stock. He himself is
no stockholder.
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<p> Architect Wright was born in 1869 on a Wisconsin farm where
he spent his precocious childhood tending sheep. With no formal
education he informally studied engineering at the University
of Wisconsin. Although he received no degree he became unusually
proficient in that profession. Twenty years ago his reputation
in architecture was worldwide.
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<p> The basic philosophies of his buildings are: 1) They,
especially homes, should be constructed as integral parts of
their landscapes and of the materials of the neighborhood. His
thrice-built home at Spring Green seemed a rocky outcropping of
the hill itself. 2) Buildings (factories, theaters, hotels)
should interpret the spirit as well as suit the use of their
occupancies. This has created blocky, mechanistic, "modernistic"
structures. His most representative factory building is that of
the Larkin Co. at Buffalo; his best hotel the Imperial at Tokyo,
famed for octagonal copper bathtubs and "skyscraper"
furniture. People for whom he builds homes yield to his artistic
bullying. His commissions--and therefrom the profits on which
Frank Lloyd Wright, Inc. can count--enable him to maintain
offices at Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo.</p>
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