WHEN I told my friends that I was planning a family vacation in Wisconsin, I received either blank stares or teasing comments about the admittedly unsexy specialties for which the state is known. There was mention of cows and cornfields and cheese curds. Yet Wisconsin is also Frank Lloyd Wright country, the place where he was born and reared and to...
In 1910, when Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Park Inn and City National Bank building in downtown Mason City, Iowa, he most likely didn't anticipate that one day it would be a boutique hotel. But the restored building recently reopened with 27 rooms, offering architecture enthusiasts the opportunity to spend the night in a Wright building. The...
Darwin D. Martin, a soap-factory executive in Buffalo, was a serial client of Frank Lloyd Wright. Between 1903 and 1928, the charismatic architect designed a half-dozen buildings for Martin's family, including a carriage house and a mausoleum. Wright referred to his shy, bookish patron as ''my best friend,'' borrowed $70,000 from him over the years...
Frank Lloyd Wright (8. juni 1867 - 9. april 1959) var en amerikansk arkitekt. Han betragtes som en af de mest prominente og indflydelsesrige arkitekter i første halvdel af 1900-tallet.