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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America

Into their landscape ofsoaring vertical lines, glass and right angles, he smuggled a low,...

Into their landscape of
soaring vertical lines, glass and right angles, he smuggled a low, curvaceous newcomer, and it stole the show

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Into their landscape of soaring vertical lines,
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glass and right angles,
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he smuggled a low, curvaceous newcomer,
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and it stole the show.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
00:54:54
Uploaded
Jun 30, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Wildflame Productions

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Movie Summary

Frank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest ever architect. But few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them, and the secrets of his radical Welsh background.
Inside, the Guggenheim was the logical culmination - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:10
Inside, the Guggenheim was the logical culmination
It's a building with just one room, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:06
It's a building with just one room,
Others, like me, would rather begin at the bottom. - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:04
Others, like me, would rather begin at the bottom.
But once you're on your way, Frank Lloyd Wright - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:05
But once you're on your way, Frank Lloyd Wright
In traditional museums, you're sometimes not sure - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:10
In traditional museums, you're sometimes not sure
You can see where you're going, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:06
You can see where you're going,
You're drawn naturally up the path, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:14
You're drawn naturally up the path,
You're not just looking at art, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:06
You're not just looking at art,
Back in the 1950s, however, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:09
Back in the 1950s, however,
The sloping walls they said - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:06
The sloping walls they said
The windows would allow in too much or too little light, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:11
The windows would allow in too much or too little light,
In the end, that un-Wright-ian thing, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:05
In the end, that un-Wright-ian thing,
The colour was off white, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:08
The colour was off white,
- I'd say I like the building more, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:07
- I'd say I like the building more,
What we like to say to one another - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:05
What we like to say to one another
It was a bloody expensive building, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:14
It was a bloody expensive building,
- Frank Lloyd Wright died in April 1959, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:08
- Frank Lloyd Wright died in April 1959,
His life had encompassed a huge swathe of history. - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:04
His life had encompassed a huge swathe of history.
Born in the wake of the American Civil War, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:09
Born in the wake of the American Civil War,
He had changed architecture not just in America, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:05
He had changed architecture not just in America,