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THE LIFE AND WORK OF

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

PART 6:

Ages 63 (1930) to 78 (1945)

In Chicago

by JT Wunderlich PhD

FRANK LLOYD

WRIGHT

OLGIVANNA

WRIGHT

PART 1 Frank Lloyd Wright, Age 0-19 (1867-1886) Formative Years

Historical & Social Context: Post-Civil War recession, Industrial revolution, Farm life, Preacher/Musician Father, Teacher/Mother, Mother's large influential Unitarian farming family, Unitarian beliefs, Nature, Parent’s divorce

ARCHITECTURE: Froebel education (blocks, etc), Barns & Farm houses, Roots of his organic architecture

PART 2 Frank Lloyd Wright, Age 20-33 (1887-1900) Formative Years

Historical & Social Context: The rebuilding of Chicago after the Great Fire, Wife Anna and first five children

ARCHITECTURE: Louis Sullivan, Beginnings of his organic architecture

PART 3 Frank Lloyd Wright, Age 34-41 (1901-1908)

Historical & Social Context: Post-mid-1800’s opening of Japan, Pre-WW1 Europe, Arts &Crafts, Six children

ARCHITECTURE: Began his Prairie Style, First trip to Japan (1905)

PART 4 Frank Lloyd Wright, Age 42-47 (1909-1914)

Historical & Social Context: Secession movement in Austria, Living in Italy (1909/10), Returning to his mother's family's farmland to build Taliesin, Mistress murdered

ARCHITECTURE: Continued prairie style while seeking other inspirations and social philosophies, Taliesin

PART 5 Frank Lloyd Wright, Age 48-62 (1915-1929)

Historical & Social Context: WWI, Roaring 20’s, A short 2nd marriage, 3rd marriage to Olgivanna (Olga), CA, Japan

ARCHITECTURE: California (and Arizona) Textile Houses, Designs in Japan

PART 6 Frank Lloyd Wright, Age 63-78 (1930-1945) THIS LECTURE

Historical & Social Context: The Great Depression(1930's), WWII(1939-45), Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan; Modernism, Living with no money, Taliesin Fellowship (Olga's idea)

ARCHITECTURE: Broadacre City, Usonian Houses, Taliesin West

PART 7 Frank Lloyd Wright, Age 79-91 (1946-1958) -- died in 1958

Historical & Social Context: Post WWII economic boom, Cold War, Communal living at Taliesin, Modernism

ARCHITECTURE: Modern materials and methods

PART 8 Post Frank Lloyd Wright -- Olga continues Taliesin Fellowship (1958-1985)

Historical & Social Context

The Great Depression(1930's), WWII(1939-45), Nazi Germany

and Imperial Japan; Modernism, Living with no money, Taliesin

Fellowship (Olga's idea)

ARCHITECTURE

Broadacre City, Usonian Houses, Taliesin West, Falling Water

The Great Depression (1930's) resulted in less wealthy clients

So in 1932, created Taliesin Fellowship (school) -- Olga's idea, somewhat of a socialist utopian architectural commune

New socialist utopian ideals of equal distribution of land:

1-acre suburban plot per person (1935 Broadacre City)

And later, after WWII (1939-1945), small “affordable” homes (Usonian Homes)

In 1937, the Fellowship expanded to Taliesin West in Arizona

However noteworthy wealthy clients resulted in:

Falling Water in 1935 The Johnson Wax building in 1936

63-78 YEARS OLD (1930-1945) [BURNS 2001]

FRANK LLOYD

WRIGHT

OLGIVANNA

WRIGHT

So in 1932, created Taliesin Fellowship (school) -- Olga's idea,

somewhat of a socialist utopian architectural commune

65 YEARS OLD (1932) [BURNS 2001]

FRANK LLOYD

WRIGHT

OLGIVANNA

WRIGHT

1-acre suburban plot per person (1935 Broadacre City)

68 YEARS OLD (1935) [BURNS 2001]

FRANK LLOYD

WRIGHT

OLGIVANNA

WRIGHT

S.230 Falling Water , Mill Run, Pennsylvania, 1935

SEE MORE: http://users.etown.edu/w/wunderjt/Frank%20Lloyd%20Wright%202015%20Field%20Trip%20for%20Architecture%20Minor%20students.pdf

68 YEARS OLD (1935) [STORRER 2017]

FRANK LLOYD

WRIGHT

OLGIVANNA

WRIGHT

S.237 Johnson Wax Building, 1936

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1MXuBAxcdM

69 YEARS OLD (1936) [STORRER 2017]

FRANK LLOYD

WRIGHT

OLGIVANNA

WRIGHT

S.241 Taliesin West, 1937

70 YEARS OLD (1937) [STORRER 2017]

FRANK LLOYD

WRIGHT

OLGIVANNA

WRIGHT

S.316-S.318 Usonian Homes, 1945-1951

http://www.steinerag.com/flw/Artifact%20Pages/PhRtS398ny.htm

78 YEARS OLD (1945) [STORRER 2017]

FRANK LLOYD

WRIGHT

OLGIVANNA

WRIGHT

After WWII (1939-1945), small “affordable” homes (Usonian Homes)

Burns, Ken, and Novick, Lynn. Frank Lloyd Wright: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick DVD. PBS Home Video, August 28, 2001.

Curtis, Stanley James. Friedrich Froebel; German educator. Encyclopedia Britannica, 2018. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Friedrich-Froebel

Find a grave; William Carey Wright, 2018. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55462361/william-carey-wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. 1905: Japan through the Lens of Frank Lloyd Wright, 2017. https://www.wrightsjapan1905.org/

Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. Unity Temple, 2018. https://flwright.org/researchexplore/unitytemple

Froebel; Brief History of the Kindergarten. Froebel Gifts, 2013. http://www.froebelgifts.com/history.htm

Ho-o-Den ,. An Illustrated Description of the Buildings Erected by the Japanese Government at the World´s Columbian Exposition, Jackson

Park, Chicago, Tokyo, K. Ogawa, publisher, 2018. http://www.baxleystamps.com/litho/ogawa/ogawa_hooden.shtml

Hoffman, Anna. Gustav Stickley: the American Arts & Crafts Movement. Sept 16, 2010. https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/gustav-stickley-the-american-a-127060

Huxtable, Ada Louise. Frank Lloyd Wright. New York Times, Oct. 31, 2004. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/books/chapters/frank-lloyd-wright.html

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LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), The United States Green Building Council, 2018. https://new.usgbc.org/leed

Life of Olgivanna Lloyd Wright Reviewed by Architects and Artisans. ORO Editions. Sep 12, 2017. https://www.oroeditions.com/2017/09/12/the-life-of-olgivanna-lloyd-wright-reviewed-by-architects-and-artisans/

PENN Rare Book and Manuscript: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Paternal Family. Penn Library. University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 20, 2014.

http://www.library.upenn.edu/rbm/featured/mscoll822.html

Storrer, William Allin. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, a Complete Catalog, 4th edition. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Pearson, David. The Breaking Wave: New Organic Architecture. Stroud: Gaia, 2001.

Zerbey, Nancy. New England Architecture | Guide to House Styles in New England. New England Today Living, May 9, 2018.

https://newengland.com/today/living/homes/new-england-architecture/

Unity Chapel, Unity Chapel Inc. 2018. http://www.unitychapel.org/familyhistory/

Wright, Frank Lloyd. The Art and Craft of the Machine, Vol. 8, No. 2 pp. 77-81, 83-85, 87-90, May, 1901. tps://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25505640.pdf

Wright, Frank Lloyd. In the Cause of Architecture. Architectural Record, vol. XXIII, March 1908.

Wright, Frank Lloyd. In the Cause of Architecture; Second Paper. Architectural Record, May 1914.

Wright, Frank Lloyd. The Natural House. New York, Penguin Books , 1954.

Wright, Frank Lloyd. Testament. New York, Bramhall House, 1957.