y respectful of it with the use of his materials. The materials that he used were natural, such as stone, brick, and wood. In Frank Lloyd Wright, by Benedikt Taschen, Taschen states:“His work in these materials always adhered to what he perceived as most natural to them, letting the masses of stone become the feature of the building, or the rich earth-tones of the brick…rise in masses and the forms that glorified the brick. And wood he considered the most loved of all materials, saying ‘Wood is universally beautiful to man. Man loves his association with it; likes to feel it under his hand, sympathetic to his touch and to his eye’ (Taschen 24).”Wright’s favoring of nature has also helped to maintain his structures through the things that they must endure, like weather and erosion. Frank Lloyd Wright had no real definable style. He has said, “There should be as many kinds of houses as there are kinds of people and as many differentiation’s as there are different individuals. A man who has individuality has a right to its expression in his own environment (Williams Students 1).”Wright would often learn about the family for whom he was designing for before starting, to get a feel for their needs and preferences. Hillard Harper says in The Los Angeles Times that “Architect and client frequently found themselves pitted against each other during the design and construction phase, although the completed building usually healed any wounds (Harper 2). Besides designing buildings, he used his creativity to design the furniture, fabrics, art glass, lamps, dinnerware, silver, linen and graphic arts inside the creation as well (Frank Lloyd 2). He used the setting and environment to his advantage, and worked with it, rather than against it. “He glorified the sense of ‘shelter’ (Frank Lloyd 2).” He had different types of houses, such as the prairie ...
