American architect (1867–1959), the towering figure of organic architecture, an older contemporary against whom Fuller's industrialized, performance-first approach to building defined itself.

Frank Lloyd Wright

American architect (1867–1959), the most celebrated American architect of the century — author of "organic architecture," the Prairie and Usonian houses, Fallingwater, and the Guggenheim.

Wright pursued buildings rooted in site, material, and a hand-crafted ideal of the organic whole — a vision of architecture as art form wedded to landscape.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: contemporary (architecture). Wright and R. Buckminster Fuller were the poles of American architectural imagination in the mid-century: Wright's site-specific, craft-based organicism against Fuller's mass-produced, weight-and-performance industrialism ("How much does your building weigh?"). Though they respected each other, Fuller's Dymaxion and geodesic programs implicitly answered Wright's architecture with a very different answer to the question of how humans should be housed.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Relationship to Fuller

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