Architects' careers and design contributions. Style definitions and construction components have their own sections.
Test your knowledge with these top questions!
Frank Lloyd Wright's modest homes for middle-class Americans were known by what name?
Usonian houses often skipped basements and attics to lower costs, with a carport in place of a garage.
What was Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater originally designed to be?
Wright also designed Fallingwater's furniture, including tables, desks, shelves, and built-in seats made from black walnut.
Which house style is closely associated with Frank Lloyd Wright's early career?
Prairie houses use long horizontal lines and low roofs to echo the wide, open land around them.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed Taliesin West as a winter home and architecture school in which state?
Wright used local desert rocks in Taliesin West's walls to connect the buildings with their surroundings.
Which architect designed the glass pyramid entrance at the Louvre in Paris?
Completed in 1989, the pyramid leads to an underground lobby that connects the Louvre's three wings.