Cultural Presentation 3
Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, a small Wisconsin farming community, on June 8, 1867 to William and Anna Wright. His family moved frequently during his early years because William was a pastor. They lived in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Iowa before settling in Madison, Wisconsin, when Wright was 12 years old. In 1885, he graduated from the public high school in Madison and his parents got divorced, never to be seen again. Wright decided to enroll in at the University of Wisconsin to study civil engineering. In order to pay his tuition, he worked for Allan Conover, the Dean of the University of Wisconsin’s Engineering department and assisted the acclaimed architect Joseph Silsbee with the construction of the Unity Chapel. This job convinced him he wanted to become an architect and provided him a basic knowledge of building and structural design, so he decided to drop out of school.
Around that same time, a devastating fire occurred in Chicago and had wiped out a central part of the city. It left many homeless, so Wright felt he needed to go there to help. The architectural firm responsible for most of the reconstruction was headed by Louis Sullivan. Wright, with little experience, negotiated a job with Sullivan as a draftsman and designer. His “out of the box” theories of design …show more content…
When he returned in 1913, they moved back to Spring Green, WI and Wright designed a home on some land that his maternal uncle had given him. He named the house Taliesin. Tragically, in 1914 an insane servant set fire to the home killing Cheney and six others. Most would think that Wright would end his careers because of this event, but he didn’t. Instead, he decided to rebuild Taliesin in order to, in his own words, “wipe the scar from the hill” (Fandel & Wright,
Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, a small Wisconsin farming community, on June 8, 1867 to William and Anna Wright. His family moved frequently during his early years because William was a pastor. They lived in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Iowa before settling in Madison, Wisconsin, when Wright was 12 years old. In 1885, he graduated from the public high school in Madison and his parents got divorced, never to be seen again. Wright decided to enroll in at the University of Wisconsin to study civil engineering. In order to pay his tuition, he worked for Allan Conover, the Dean of the University of Wisconsin’s Engineering department and assisted the acclaimed architect Joseph Silsbee with the construction of the Unity Chapel. This job convinced him he wanted to become an architect and provided him a basic knowledge of building and structural design, so he decided to drop out of school.
Around that same time, a devastating fire occurred in Chicago and had wiped out a central part of the city. It left many homeless, so Wright felt he needed to go there to help. The architectural firm responsible for most of the reconstruction was headed by Louis Sullivan. Wright, with little experience, negotiated a job with Sullivan as a draftsman and designer. His “out of the box” theories of design …show more content…
When he returned in 1913, they moved back to Spring Green, WI and Wright designed a home on some land that his maternal uncle had given him. He named the house Taliesin. Tragically, in 1914 an insane servant set fire to the home killing Cheney and six others. Most would think that Wright would end his careers because of this event, but he didn’t. Instead, he decided to rebuild Taliesin in order to, in his own words, “wipe the scar from the hill” (Fandel & Wright,