Frank Lloyd Wright - Architect Extraordinaire

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1. What did Wright's mother do while he was a baby to foster the idea of architecture? read books on architecture to him helped him draw pictures of buildings took him to see famous buildings hung drawings of famous buildings around his bed

2. When Wright reached the age of seven, his mother introduced him to a visual education method using wooden blocks and paper shapes. What was the name of this method? Schrock Montessori Froebel Cognitive

3. When Wright was around eleven, his parents sent him to work each summer on an uncle's farm in rural Wisconsin. Why did they do this? wanted to get him away from big city life wanted him to earn his own money wanted to toughen him up he didn't get along with his siblings

4. What upheaval in Wright's life forced him to be on his own at age eighteen? his parents divorced his family disowned him his father died his father's business failed

5. Wright's first opportunity to do some architectural design work came when he got to assist Chicago architect Joseph Silsbee. What type of building did they design? library chapel theater university hall

6. In 1887, what was Wright's first design to actually be built? a house for one of his uncles a building for his brother-in-law's business a house for his mother a building for his aunts' school

7. When designing, Wright considered the materials, the land, and the occupants as well as the function of the structure. With what phrase did Wright express this theory? Form and Function Are One Function First, Form Follows Forn Follows Function Function Follows Form

8. Before turning forty years old, Wright did something scandalous that impacted his reputation. What did he do? stole another architect's design used substandard materials to save money abandoned his family cheated a business partner

9. At which of Wright's houses did a 1914 fire destroy everything except his studio? Robie House Taliesin Fallingwater Graycliff

10. Wright became famous on an international level with his design of the Imperial Hotel. In what world capital was the hotel located? Paris, France Tokyo, Japan Brussels, Belgium Berlin, Germany