An American architect, interior designer and educator, Frank Lloyd Wright designed and completed over 500 structures in his career. He tried to build structures that he felt balanced both humanity and environment, which he termed organic architecture.

“So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but instead exalting the simple laws of common sense or of super-sense if you prefer determining form by way of the nature of materials …”

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

During his career, Wright designed offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels and museums. Some of his most famous buildings which were also nominated as World Heritage Sites are seen below.

Unity Temple, Illinois

Frederick C. Robie House, Illinois.

Taliesin, Wisconsin.

Hollyhock House, California.

Fallingwater, Pennsylvania.

Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Marin Civic Center, California.

Sources:

Frank Lloyd Wright (1954). The Natural House (New York: Bramhall House).

Secrest, Meryle (1998). Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography. University of Chicago Press.

Twombly, Robert (1979). Frank Lloyd Wright His Life and Architecture. Canada: A Wiley-Interscience.

Wrightscapes: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Landscape Designs, Charles E. and Berdeana Aguar, McGraw-Hill, 2002.