Frank LIoyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright designed all kinds of buildings including banks, holiday resorts, office buildings, churches, a synagogue, a gas station, a beer garden and an art museum

Wright also designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass.

His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio.

Already well-known during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time

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Wright believed in designing structures which were in peace with humanity and its environment. He called his belief organic architecture

He called his belief organic architecture

He began an American style of building design and is said to be one of the greatest architects of the twentieth century

Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the image of the Usonian home

Frank Lloyd Wright designed a summer-house in 1935 over a waterfall in Pennsylvania. He called the house "Fallingwater".

The house actually sits low in the valley over the stream, but looks dramatic from further downstream.

It has large terraces, and some of them stick straight out and hang over the waterfall or the stream.

it resembles the horizontal and vertical lines in the rock formations and other natural features

Robie House. It had a maze like layout and geometric stained glass windows.

The Robie House was a unique house with odd shapes, colors and form.

Johnson Wax Headquarters. The building has Wright's idea of the streamlined Art Moderne style popular in the 1930s.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Its interior is similar to the inside of a seashell.

Further, the Museum currently designs exhibits to be viewed by walking up the curved walkway without walking down from the top-level.

Its one of a kind central geometry was created to allow visitors to easily see Guggenheim's collection of his paintings by taking an elevator to the top-level and then viewing artworks by walking down the slowly descending, central spiral ramp