Frank Lloyd A WORLD OF INFLUENCE

America's most celebrated architect has shaped generations of designers,

Wright transforming how we live and build. His visionary, seven-decade-long

career spanned America's Prairie School, the birth of modernism, and the
sculptural flights of fancy that dominate today's cityscapes.

The Modernist The American

Masters Acolytes
Europe's emerging modernist giants were heavily In 1932 Wright established the Taliesin Fellowship,
influenced by the 1910 German release of the Wasmuth an architecture school and apprenticeship program
Portfolio, a seminal collection of Wright's early work. The Japanese that splits its time between the architect's homes in
Wisconsin and Arizona.
Disciples
A celebrity in his A passionate fan of Japanese art,
own time, Wright Wright first visited Japan in 1905. DESERT
and his design MODERNISTS
LE CORBUSIER He returned in 1917 to oversee work ALBERT LEDNER
principles have had NOTRE DAME DU HAUT 1887 – 1965 on Tokyo's Imperial Hotel. 1924 –
enduring PAOLO SOLERI

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resonance with the A stylistic nemesis, 1919 – 2013
Le Corbusier evoked
IMPERIAL HOTEL
21st century's APPRENTICES
Wright’s use of large bands The Italian-born
starchitects. of windows and shifts of apprentice shared
scale in in his minimalist ANTONIN RAYMOND
1888 – 1976 Wright's love of the
interior spaces. Arizona desert,
IMPERIAL HOTEL

LLOYD WRIGHT

ARCOSANTI
developing a style that
Raymond accompanied (FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT JR.)
1890 – 1978 fused architecture and
LUDWIG MIES Wright to Tokyo, where
LOUIS KAHN ecology.
VAN DER ROHE the Czech emigré
1901 – 1974 The Taliesin apprentice earned
1886 – 1969 established himself as
praise for his bold (sometimes JOHN RATTENBURY
a preeminent figure
whimsical) modernist work, 1929 –
I.M. PEI in Japanese modern
BARCELONA PAVILION

The highly influential such as the National Maritime

1917 –
open floorplans of RUDOLPH architecture.
Union building.
SCHINDLER VERNON D. SWABACK
Wright’s Prairie School 1940 –
1887 – 1953
homes made an DANIEL LIEBERMANN
impression on Bauhaus WAYFARERS CHAPEL 1930 – 2015
The Austrian-born friends ARATA ENDO
greats Ludwig Mies van 1889 – 1951
Schindler and Neutra Wright's oldest son, who also
der Rohe and Walter
studied landscape
BINE DRAKE
immigrated to the U.S. to
J.F.K. LIBRARY

Gropius. Wright hired Endo to assist him on 1911 – 1993 BRUCE GOFF
train with Wright at architecture with the 1904 – 1982
Taliesin before establishing the Imperial Hotel, as well as several Olmsted Brothers, shared his
other Japanese projects. HENRY KLUMB
their reputations in father's love of geometric 1905 – 1984
WALTER GROPIUS Southern California. forms and textile blocks.
1883 – 1969
MICHAEL GRAVES

BAVINGER HOUSE
1934 – 2015
RICHARD NEUTRA KAMEKI TSUCHIURA E. FAY JONES
1892 – 1970 1897 – 1996
1921 – 2004
ZAHA HADID
1950 – 2016 An AIA Gold Medal winner,
YOSHIYA TANOUE
1899 – 1991 Jones pushed Wright's organic
architecture principles to

COMMUNITY CHAPEL
Hadid said Wright's use Known for an eclectic, exhuberant
of light and perspective RAKU ENDO modernist heights.

MARTY LEONARD
style, the Oklahoma architect and
CHUEY HOUSE

GROPIUS HOUSE SECOND GENERATION

in the Solomon R. professor corresponded with
1927 – 2003
Guggenheim Museum Wright for years.
had an "incredible
KUNIO MAEKAWA
influence" on her. SECOND GENERATION BART PRINCE
1905 – 1986 1947 –
HEYDAR ALIYEV
CULTURAL CENTER
KEY JUNZO YOSHIMURA JOHN UTNER JOSEPH EICHLER
SECOND GENERATION ERIC LLOYD 1911 – 1994 1900 – 1974
NORMAN FOSTER INFLUENCED BY THE WASMUTH 1908 – 1997
WRIGHT
1935 – PORTFOLIO IN 1910 CREATED BY
1929 – CA SUA L A STRO NAU T
STUDIED AT TALIESIN FO R
Lloyd's son dedicated much of his
career to preserving his father's and
grandfather's work.