Life Line: Frank Lloyd Wright Year 1867 1886 1887 1889 1893 1901 1903 1904 1905 1906 1909 1910 1910 1911 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1922 1923 1924 1925 1927 1928 1932 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1943 1944 1947 1952 1954 1956 1957 1959 1985

Influence Event Mother Wright born (June 8; Richland Center, WI) First design: Unity Chapel for Mother’s family Works for architect Silsbee in Chicago for less than 1 year Starts work at architectural firm Adler & Sullivan in Chicago Catherine 1st marriage (to Catherine); Builds Oak Park home Leaves Adler & Sullivan; Starts own practice Designs first true Prairie house (Willits) Designs Larkin Administration Building Designs Darwin Martin house; Designs Unity Temple First trip to Japan Designs Robie house Mamah Abandons family, causing scandal; Goes to Europe with Mamah Publishes Wasmuth Portfolio in Germany Prairie period unofficially ends Builds Taliesin Designs Midway Gardens; Goes to Japan to win Imperial Hotel contract Mamah murdered and Taliesin burns down; Taliesin rebuilt Designs Ravine Bluffs bridge / housing and A. D. German warehouse Designs American System-Built homes Miriam Moves to Japan with Miriam to begin work on Imperial Hotel Travels back & forth between Japan and LA to work on Hollyhock house Divorces Catherine (she finally consents) Wright’s mother dies; 2nd marriage (to Miriam); Imperial Hotel completed Designs textile block houses (Millard, Storer, Freeman, Ennis) Olgivanna Meets Olgivanna; Separates from Miriam Second Taliesin fire; Taliesin rebuilt Divorces Miriam (she finally consents) Begins work on Broadacre City model; 3rd marriage (to Olgivanna) Writes autobiography; Starts Taliesin Fellowship (teaches apprentices) Designs Fallingwater Designs Johnson Wax Administration Building Designs first Usonian house (Jacobs) Designs Wingspread (last Prairie); Purchases AZ land & builds Taliesin West Cover of Time magazine (Jan 17); Subject of entire special issue of Arch. Forum; Designs Florida Southern College master plan Designs Pope (-Leighey) house Designs Auldbrass (SC plantation); Founds the FLW Foundation Initial design for Guggenheim Museum Designs Johnson Wax Research Tower Designs Usonia II master plan (Pleasantville, NY) Designs Unitarian Meeting House Designs Price Tower Designs Kentuck Knob (Hagan) house Designs Beth Sholom Synagogue Final design for Guggenheim Museum Designs Marin County Civic Center Catherine dies (March 24); Wright dies (April 9; Taliesin West, AZ) Olgivanna dies (March 1)

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