April 2009. The master lecturer, Trevor Garnham, gave us our second history essay and I choose the Frank Lloyd Wright question. I knew very little about this American architect but was fancinated by the oversight I had been given. For a technically Victorian age architect, he had amazing vision. He was inspired by a mix of Japanese style and ancient Mayan, and incorporated his own experience in Italy with his early days of the family farm in Spring Greens USA. We had to discuss how he was inspired by nature, the organic and landscape. He was famous for his Prairie style houses with their open interiors and exaggerated horizontal exteriors, but moved on to a much more environmentaly inclusive style. His signature building must be the Kaufmann's Fallingwater.
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