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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 219. Chapters: Frank Lloyd Wright, I. M. Pei, List of Frank Lloyd Wright works, Rudolf Steiner, Charles Holden, Buckminster Fuller, John Lautner, Vlastimil Koubek, Le Corbusier, John Carl Warnecke, Louis Sullivan, Vesnin brothers, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Oscar Niemeyer, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Jorn Utzon, Jane Drew, Louis Kahn, Alvar Aalto, Philip Johnson, Barton Myers, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Konstantin Melnikov, Richard Neutra, Louis Sauer, Arieh Sharon, Nadir Afonso, Isabel Roberts, Richard Rogers, Arne Jacobsen, Charles and Ray Eames, Andrew Geller, Marcel Breuer, Harry Seidler, Vladimir Shukhov, Nikolai Ladovsky, Eero Saarinen, Maxwell Fry, Leandro Locsin, Nathaniel A. Owings, Lawrence Scarpa, Bernhard Hoesli, Jorge Ferreira Chaves, Rudolph Schindler (architect). Excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 - April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by his design for Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture." Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States. His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. Wright also designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass. Wright authored 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in...
