Frank Lloyd Wright

An extrordinary American architect and the leader of the Prarie School of architecture. He was born in Wisconsin and designed over 1,000 structures, of which over 500 were built. Three of his most famous buildings are Falling Water, the Guggenheim Museum and Taliesin. He was also a great collector of Japanese wood block prints. For more on building and archichitecture, see the Builders and Buildings feature.