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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 64. Chapters: Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Lenny Kravitz, Isamu Noguchi, Harvey Ellis, Charles and Ray Eames, Marcel Breuer, George Nelson, Gustav Stickley, Daniel Pabst, Louise Brigham, James Krenov, Milo Baughman, Jens Risom, Sam Maloof, Charles Baudouine, Herter Brothers, Paul T. Frankl, George Nakashima, Florence Knoll, William Penhallow Henderson, Wendell Castle, Joe Doucet, Rosanne Somerson, Nina Petronzio, Niels Diffrient, Thomas Day, Charles-Honoré Lannuier, Campion Platt, Thomas C. Molesworth, Charles Radtke, Eliphalet Chapin, Bill Stumpf, Edgar Blazona, Jere Osgood, Philippe Cramer, Nolen Niu, Tage Frid, Frederick Meyer, Paul R. Evans, Paul McCobb, Samuel Abraham Marx, Evert Sodergren, D. J. DePree, Charles Limbert, Edward Wormley, Richard Schultz, Matthias Pliessnig, Duncan Phyfe, Nimura and Sato, Stewart Wurtz, Don Chadwick, Alexander Roux, Davis Allen, Darrell Peart, Samuel Loomis, Luke Vincent Lockwood. Excerpt: Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 - April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works. Wright promoted organic architecture (exemplified by Fallingwater), was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture (exemplified by the Robie House, the Westcott House, and the Darwin D. Martin House), and developed the concept of the Usonian home (exemplified by the Rosenbaum House). His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. Wright also often designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass. Wright authored 20 books and many articles, and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio. Already well-known during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time". Frank Lloyd Wright was born in the farming town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States, in 1867, and named Frank Lincoln Wright. His father, William Carey Wright (1825-1904) was a locally admired orator, music teacher, occasional lawyer and itinerant minister. William Wright had met and married Anna Lloyd Jones (1838/39 - 1923), a county school teacher, the previous year when he was employed as the superintendent of schools for Richland County. Originally from Massachusetts, William Wright had been a Baptist minister but he later joined his wife's family in the Unitarian faith. Anna was a member of the large, prosperous and well-known Lloyd Jones family of Unitarians, who had emigrated from Wales to Spring Green, Wisconsin. One of Anna's brothers was Jenkin Lloyd Jones, who would become an importa