Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) was an American architect from Richland Center, Wisconsin, who developed what he called organic architecture, in which buildings grow in harmony with their sites and with human needs. After working for Louis Sullivan in Chicago, he opened his own practice in 1893 and created the low, horizontal Prairie houses, such as the Robie House in Chicago. Following a period of few commissions, his career was renewed in the mid-1930s with Fallingwater, a house built over a waterfall in Pennsylvania, and the Johnson Wax headquarters in Wisconsin. He founded the Taliesin Fellowship to train apprentices, designed modest Usonian homes for middle-class families, and designed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, which opened in 1959. In 2019 eight of his buildings were inscribed together on the UNESCO World Heritage List.