From AsktheDecorator.com

Frank Lloyd Wright Checklist

By Meghan Carter

Interesting Facts about the early years of Frank Lloyd Wright's life:

Frank Lloyd Wright spent the later part of his childhood in Wisconsin where he learned to appreciate nature while working on his mother's family's farm.
Frank Lloyd Wright attended the University of Wisconsin and studied engineering. But after a short time, Wright decided to leave college.
In 1887 Frank Lloyd Wright headed to Chicago at the age of 19. At the time Chicago had a great demand for architects to rebuild the city after the great fire.
While in Chicago, Frank Lloyd Wright worked as a draftsman for Joseph Lyman Silsbee who had designed two buildings for his uncle.
After working for Silsbee for a short time, Wright started working for Adler and Sullivan.
Frank Lloyd Wright made an agreement with Adler and Sullivan to work exclusively for them if they would lend him money to build a home for him and his first bride, Catherine Tobin. In 1889 the home was built, and shortly after Wright began working for other clients on the side. Adler and Sullivan let him go for breaking the agreement.
In 1898, Wright built a studio next to his home, and in that studio the Prairie style of architecture, arguably Wright's most famous style - took form.
Frank Lloyd Wright would not just design the home, he would design everything in the home from tablecloths to napkins to the dress the woman of the house would wear when entertaining.
Nature greatly influenced Frank Lloyd Wright, and it was that influence that helped to make Wright such a revolutionary architect. Rather than depicting things as they were in nature, Wright created abstract representations that evoked the feeling of the object without competing with it.
Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings were meant to be in harmony with their surroundings, and Wright took great care when choosing where to place them.
In all Wright designed over 1,100 projects and almost half were built.
Wright was known to have a bit of an ego, and apparently he felt he was the world's greatest architect.