Richland Center, WS, Usa, 8/6/1867 – Phoenix, AZ, Usa, 9/4/1959

Frank Lloyd Wright moved to Chicago in 1887 to work for the architectural practice Adler & Sullivan. In 1889 he married Catherin Tobin and built his own house at Oak Park.
1893 saw the opening of his own studio and the start of the fertile period of “Prairie Houses”. Sixteen years later however, he abandoned work and family to find refuge in Fiesole with M.B.Cheney.
Returning to the Usa he founded the community of Taliesin at Spring Green. In 1914 whilst he was in Chicago, a madman killed his partner and two children and set fire to Taliesin.

After a second fire, in 1924 he began Taliesin III with “Olgivanna”, that will become his third wife.
A serious financial crisis in 1929 forced him to change his practice into a limited company but in 1936 saw the start of a period in which he produced his best work.
In 1938 he built Taliesin West in the Arizona desert; the following year received the RIBA gold medal and in 1949 that of the AIA.