What makes me eminent?
My eminence was achieved through multiple different factors, but I will highlighting only a handful for today. Perhaps my largest and most famous achievement that allowed me to become eminent was my creation of organic architecture and prairie-style of architecture.
Organic architecture is the philosophy of creating buildings that harmonized and coexisted with nature instead of destroying it. Like I once said, “no house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.” (Wright, n.d.). Throughout my career, I created many famous works that used this philosophy of incorporating nature into a building's design, such as Taliesin West and Fallingwater. These works continue to inspire people of the present day to create buildings with organic architecture in mind. The prairie style emphasized the horizontal plane and the use of mass-produced materials in a building's design. My prairie style allowed American architecture to move away from an older Victorian-style and revivalist-style of architecture. I breathed new life into architecture all around America with my own creations and other's creating pieces that were inspire by my work. Without my invention of the prairie style, a large majority of buildings in the modern day would still be concrete cubicles. The prairie-style also allowed for buildings to become more affordable due to my use of mass-produced materials. Using these two forms of architecture, I took the first steps in making buildings look how they do now as well as the ideas and principles behind their development. |
Another factor for my eminence that I possess is my strong work ethic. My work ethic allowed me to design over 1000 buildings and build about half of them during my career. My buildings often had variety in their designs, with no building having a same theme or design as another. From my work, people learned that even though we humans fear change, change is often a good thing. As it was changes to what I saw as a stale climate in my beloved career that led me to make beautiful changes to architecture as a whole.