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Frank Lloyd Wright
said
Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.
— On Boston, The New York Times (27 November 1955)
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect (1867-1959)
- Fame82.8
- Momentum0.1
- United States rank#191
Source-basedFalling
- Fame82.8
- Momentum0.1
- United States rank#191
- Architects rank#3
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Lived 1867–1959, aged 92United States
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Updated 2026-06-26
He built over a thousand structures and shaped how the twentieth century thought about space, but the work that made him untouchable was a house cantilevered over a waterfall in Pennsylvania. Wright didn't just design buildings — he designed the furniture, the windows, the dishes, then wrote books explaining why it all had to be that way.
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Raised in rural Wisconsin, Wright studied civil engineering before apprenticing in Chicago with Louis Sullivan at Adler & Sullivan. He opened his own practice in 1893 and established a studio in his Oak Park home in 1898. His philosophy — organic architecture, designing in harmony with humanity and the environment — drove the Prairie School movement and later the Usonian home concept within his Broadacre City vision for American urban planning. The fame grew alongside turbulence: he left his first wife Catherine for Mamah Cheney in 1909; in 1914 a staff member murdered Mamah, her children, and…
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Frank Lloyd Wright
said
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
— Address at Evanston Illinois (8 August 1954)
Frank Lloyd Wright
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
— New York Times Magazine (4 October 1953) Sometimes paraphrased: "A doctor can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his
Frank Lloyd Wright
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I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught.
— Quote from an interview on the NBC television program, Wisdom- A Conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright (1953)
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
— The Future of Architecture (1953)
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