Caroline Justice
Frank Lloyd Wright
From
the beginning, Anna Lloyd Jones Wright wanted her son to be an architect. Frank
Lincoln Wright (later changed to Frank Lloyd Wright) was born on June 8, 1867. He
went to the University of Wisconsin, where he majored in engineering, but he
dreamed of going to Chicago because that is where big buildings were happening.
Frank Lloyd Wright changed American architecture in a way no one had done
before him and no one has done since. He is known as the best architect in
American history because of what he has done for our country and because of his
downright passion for his job.
In all
of his buildings, Frank Lloyd Wright wanted to connect America the country with
America the people, whether they were enjoying our country outside or sitting
in their living room. He spelled Nature with a capital “N”, which shows what he
was trying to do. He shoved aside hand-me-down European-style architecture and
strived to create something brand new, which celebrated daily lives of Americans.
His work has been called the “basis on 20th century residential
design”. He designed 800 buildings, 280 of which still stand, almost a century
later. He strived to meet physical, social, and spiritual needs of Americans in
the buildings he created instead of just making an enlarged shoebox like most
of our buildings are today.
Frank
Lloyd Wright viewed his work as nothing less than an art form. He balanced
natural and artificial light to create what is called “organic architecture”. Frank
Lloyd Wright had a passion for creating art in the form of buildings. He didn’t
treat it like a job because that’s not what it was to him. He wanted what he
did to last and matter and mean something to anyone who saw it. He even said, “What
is architecture anyway? ... Varying tastes of the various lords of man kind? I
think not. No, I know that architecture is life; or at least it is life itself
taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in
the world yesterday, as it is lived today, or ever will be lived… So,
architecture I know to be a Great Spirit.” He viewed his job as a physical
being! This shows that he cared about architecture more than anything in the
world. He knew what he did would outlast him and change our country for the
better by giving it an architectural identity.
I think
that everyone should strive to find something that they are this passionate
about. Presidents and movie stars are very well known, but architects don’t become
architects because they want to be famous. It takes an extreme amount of
creativity and drive to achieve his amount of fame in a career like his. If
everyone in the world cared about their occupation the way Frank Lloyd Wright did,
the world would be a much better place.
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