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Frank Lloyd Wright
(June 8, 1867-April 9, 1959)

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"If there is any one architect about whom the proverbial John Q. Public knows something, it is surely Frank Lloyd Wright. People who have not read a word of his writings do not hesitate to invoke his name. Many who are not the least a bit familiar with the principles of organic architecture crave to live in a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Simon and Garfunkel have even sung about him. It is no exaggeration to say that there is something of the legendary about Frank Lloyd Wright... His Unitarian upbringing undoubtedly had some effect on both his views and his work. When Frank Lloyd Wright lived in the prosperous Chicago suburb of Oak Park, III., near the turn of the century, Frank Lloyd Wright was in close touch with a number of Unitarian ministers. One such minister, William C. Gannett, wrote a book that made a powerfull impression on Frank Lloyd Wright. Gannett's The House Beautiful (1987) made a bold plea for simplicity and gracefulness in housing design. The Unitarian influence on Frank Lloyd Wright was not limited to housing, as Oak Park's Unity Temple (1906) and the much later Unitarian Meeting House (1947) of Madison. To Frank Lloyd Wright, all architecture was "a sermon in stone". He truly believed there was a realm of the divine within nature and that it was the architect's duty to capture it, even if that meant spitting against wind. It is a small wonder then that Frank Lloyd Wright has been dubbed a "minister of reform"...."





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-- Links to more information about Frank Lloyd Wright;

-- Prairie Styles website entry;



-- "Wiki" entry;



-- "Wright Foundation" website;



-- "All Wright" guide to FLW links and information;



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-- On the faith of Frank Lloyd Wright;

-- Harvard Square Library biographical page;



-- "UU World" article on Wright's UU churches;



-- A sermon on the faith of Frank Lloyd Wright, by Rev. Michael Schuler of Madison, Wisconsin's First Unitarian Society (Wright's home church) was delivered on June 8, 2008, and is available via (mp3) podcast and in printed form (pdf) at these links;





-- Newspaper article on renovations to Wright's (above-mentioned) church here;




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