Part 1
Frank Lloyd Wright was born on the rural Richland Wisconsin countryside. Wright was influenced by nature; many of his designs were generated by his love of nature. Wright spent a lot of his summer days on his uncle’s farm, and spent much of this time studying the pattern and rhythms found in nature.
In 1893 Wright launched his own design firm, and for the next earth years he used his time and talents to resolve a problem he saw in societies style were gradually but boldly synthesized into the design concept that was more suitable for middle-class American family life. Wright believed that rooms in Victorian era homes were boxed-in and confining. He refined American housing by designing houses with low horizontal lines and open interior spaces. In 1901 he introduced the Prairie house. American tradition of wood frame structures with the new use of horizontal lines, overhanging eaves, low pitched roofs and rows of small windows were characteristics of the Prairie homes.
The Prairie houses were designed to human scale. However, Wright did not confine himself to architecture. He also designed furniture, fabrics, art glass, lamps, dinnerware, silver, linens and graphic arts. Wright took the time to design for human scale, at the time no other architecture took greater advantage of surroundings and atmosphere. Each piece in a Frank Lloyd Wright home was designed for that specific project. No other architect glorified the sense of "shelter" as did Frank Lloyd Wright. "A building is not just a place to be. It is a way to be," he said.
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