Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was one of the world’s most prominent and influential architects. He developed a series of highly individual styles, influenced the design of buildings all over the world, and to this day remains America’s most famous architect. Wright was also well known in his lifetime. His colorful personal life frequently made headlines, most notably for the failure of his first two marriages and for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio.

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in the agricultural town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States, just two years after the end of the American Civil War. Originally named Frank Lincoln Wright, he changed his name after his parents’ divorce to honor his mother’s Welsh American family, the Lloyd Joneses of Wisconsin. His father, William Russell Cary Wright was a locally admired orator, music teacher, occasional lawyer and itinerant minister. His father had met and married Anna Lloyd Jones, a county school teacher

Wright never attended high school and was admitted to the University of Wisconsin as a special student in 1885. While attending classes at the university, he joined the Fraternity of Phi Delta Theta. He took classes part time for two semesters, while apprenticing under a local builder and professor of civil engineering.

One of Wright’s most famous private residences was constructed from 1935 to 1939 was Fallingwater, built for Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., at Bear Run, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. It was designed according to Wright’s desire to place the occupants close to the natural surroundings, with a stream and waterfall running under part of the building. Wright practiced what is known as organic architecture, Lynch even states as one of FLW intern, that organic architecture evolves naturally out of the context, most importantly for him the relationship between the site and the building and the needs of the client, edited from wiki, picture from myweb.stedwards.edu.