Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959) was an architect, interior designer, art dealer and writer American descent.

He began his studies in 1885 at the University of Wisconsin, but left this in 1887 without completing.

From this time to the year 1893, he worked for Lyman Silsbee in Chicago and for Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. After this experience, he started his own company in his new home Oak Park.

By 1910, he realized primarily Prairie Houses, for the movement he, Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin was largely responsible.

In his later work, his love to the nature of Wisconsin was clearly strong. He pursued a seamless integration of its buildings in the landscape. This style is best reflected in his most famous work, the villa Fallingwater, which he designed for Edgar J. Kaufmann.

To well-known works of his creation phase includes the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the administration building for the Johnson Wax Company.

Frank Lloyd Wright was after centuries of America's dependence on the European architecture finally ready to create a new identity for American architecture. The so-called Prairie Houses should radiate the expression of the American spirit of cohesion, democracy and a pioneering spirit. He is also considered one of the first architects, who used the term "organic design".

He was interested in much more than the architecture and described in his book "When democracy builds" a plan for the civilization of the 20th Century, including America's visionary "Usonia" and the so-called Broadacre Cities belong.

Frank Lloyd Wright was also a highly respected art dealer and earned some more than with his work as an architect.

He died in 1959 at the age of 91 in Phoenix, Arizona.