Frank Lloyd Wright

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with engravings of English cathedrals ripped out of a newspaper to encourage the young child’s ambition. Soon after Wright turned fourteen his parents separated because his mother had been unhappy for quite a while with his father’s inability to provide for the family and asked him to leave. After the divorce of his parents, Wright’s claimed to have never seen his father again. At this time, his middle name was changed from Lincoln to Lloyd. As the only male figure left in the family, Wright assumed financial responsibility for his mother and two sisters. Frank Wright was a student at Madison high school but never graduated. He later was admitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a special student in 1886. As a student there, he took classes part-time for two semesters and worked with a professor of civil engineering. In 1887, Wright left the school without a degree, (although he was granted an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University in 1955.)
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designed a house for his neighbor in Oak Park, Edwin Cheney. Wright immediately took a liking to Edwin’s wife, Mamah. Mamah Cheney was a modern woman with interests outside the home. She was an early feminist and Wright viewed her as his intellectual equal. The two fell in love and left their lives in the United States behind and moved to Europe where they eloped. This scandal that erupted virtually destroyed Wright’s ability to practice architecture in the United States. What drew Wright to Europe was the chance to publish a portfolio of his work with Ernst Wasmuth, who had agreed in 1909 to publish his work there. Wright and Cheney left the United States separately in 1910, meeting in ...

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