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| Frank Lloyd Wright is a very famous architect. In his life time he completed over 400 buildings. His first great projects include an office building in Buffalo, a temple in Chicago, and a beautiful house in Chicago. This started his fame as the greatest American |
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| architect ever. Some other buildings include a museum in New York City, a Civic Center in California, and an administrative building in Wisconsin. His greatest works include The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan and the famous house called Falling Waters in Pennsylvania. He |
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| deigned buildings in three different contents most in the US, Germany and Japan. Almost all of his work uses some kind of horizontal lines, overhanging roofs ,and use of regional materials. Mr. Wright also made a lot of the interiors for his buildings. |
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Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin. In 1884 he went to the University of Wisconsin and already knew he wanted to be an architect. Although the school had no coarse for this study he learned civic engineering and did work on a | |
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construction project for the school. In 1887 he left the college to work in Chicago with the architectural firm of Adler and Sullivan. Louise Sullivan had a great influence on Wright by teaching him all he knew. In 1893 he left to make his own firm. He spent a lot of time in Japan | |
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where he learn their style of building that influenced him a lot. He wrote a total of six books and have given museums many amazing drawing and blueprints. He developed organic architecture and prairie houses. He was married three time and had had seven kids. he died on April 9, 1958 in Arizona. | |
| Another Architect is Daniel Burnham. He was born in 1846 in New York. He soon moved to Chicago. There he trained in architectural firms in till 1873 when he joined Mr. John Roof. Together they made many skyscrapers in New |
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| York City, Washington D.C., and Pittsburgh. After Roof's death he had a small partnership with Mr. Lord who was a specialist in glass green houses. They made Phipps Conservatory and another green house in South Park. He died in 1912. |
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Philip Jonson was born in 1906. He introduced America to European Glass and Steel architecture. Some of his works include PPG Place of Pittsburgh, the AT&T Headquarters of New York City, and Pennzoil Place of Houston. He wrote two books and was partners | |
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with Jon Burgee for twenty-five years. they designed almost all their buildings together. He recently died at ninety-eight years old. Even at ninety he was still designing buildings. |