内容提要：美国建筑大师弗兰克·洛伊特·莱特（Frank Lloyd Wright）的生平简介及代表建筑。
Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect建筑设计师. During his lifetime, he designed over 800 buildings. He has been described as a creative创造性的 genius天才 in the field of American architecture建筑学.
Wright was born on June 8, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin威斯康星州. As a young man he worked for different architectural companies. He became very good at his work. When he was 26, he started his own business.
The most important idea for him was to build houses that looked like they were a nature part of the places they were in. One of his famous houses is called Fallingwater落水山庄. It was built near a waterfall瀑布. Some of the rooms extend延伸 right over the falls. Rocks found on the land were used on the house to make it blend使……混合 in with the rocky cliffs悬崖.
Wright also designed hotels, a museum, theaters, and office buildings. Not all of his designs became real buildings. One was for a building that would be a mile high it was never built.
In 1932, Wright started Taliesin, A school in Wisconsin. Students came to live there and learn from him. From 1938 on, the school moves during the winter to Taliesin West in Arizona亚利桑那州. Both schools still exist. Hundreds of architects have been trained at these schools. It is an honor to be a Taliesin graduate.
Frank Lloyd Wright died in Arizona at April 9, 1859. He was 91 years old. He had never stopped working.
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