American architect Frank Lloyd Wright died 60 years ago

Phoenix - Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who died 60 years ago, on April 9, 1959, is considered the most influential American architect of the 20th century. He was a theorist, urban planner, and designer with a passion for Japanese prints. He mainly designed family villas, skyscrapers, and factories. Some of Wright's most famous works include the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the former Larkin Building in Buffalo.

He was born on June 8, 1867, in Wisconsin and was a figure as passionately defended as he was condemned. During his more than 70-year career, Wright designed over a thousand buildings for various purposes - administrative, commercial, and social centers, industrial buildings, schools, galleries, museums, churches, libraries, bridges, but mainly villas and family houses - of which about half were realized.

Among Wright's famous buildings are also his estate Taliesin in Wisconsin, the weekend residence House on the Falls in Pennsylvania, and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

Around 1900, Wright came up with a new concept of dynamic interiors, which consisted of intertwining spaces. His work was influenced by the Vienna Secession, the Arts and Crafts movement, and German and Japanese culture.