53 years ago, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright passed away

Phoenix (Arizona, USA)/Prague - He is considered the most influential American architect of the 20th century. Frank Lloyd Wright, a theorist, urban planner, and designer, whose passion was Japanese prints, mainly designed family villas, skyscrapers, and factories. Among his most famous works are the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the former Larkin Company building in Buffalo. He died on April 9, 1959.
Wright, who was born on June 8, 1867, in Wisconsin, was a figure as passionately defended as he was condemned. During his more than 70-year career, he designed over a thousand buildings serving various purposes - administrative, commercial and social centers, industrial structures, schools, galleries, museums, churches, libraries, bridges, and primarily villas and family homes - about half of which were realized.
Among his celebrated buildings are his estate Taliesin in Wisconsin, the weekend residence House over the Waterfall in Pennsylvania or the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
Around 1900, Wright came up with a new concept of a dynamic interior composed of overlapping spaces. His work was influenced by the Vienna Secession, the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as German and Japanese culture.