Frank Lloyd Wright Part 3

Frank Lloyd Wright created modern architecture and in doing so he changed the way America lived. Wright said, "Whether people are fully conscious of this or not, they actually derive countenance and sustenance from the 'atmosphere' of the things they live in or with. They are rooted in them just as a plant is in the soil in which it is planted." Whatever one’s opinion of Frank Lloyd Wright’s work, there can be no question about his constant aim at beauty to which certainty most of this ultra modern can lay little claim.

Wright revered the American experience and believed that democracy was the best form of government. Throughout his life he strived to create a new architecture that reflected the American democratic ideal, an architecture based solely on America's democratic values and human dignity. He often referred to the United States as “Usonia” The city plan, Broad acre City, was the culmination of Wright's ideas on a new architecture for a new democracy.