New York's Museum of Modern Art has announced a major exhibition of work by famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to coincide with what would have been his 150th birthday.
Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive will open next summer and comprise approximately 450 works created over his 60-year career.
The exhibition at New York's MoMA is to coincide with what would have been the architect's 150th birthday
Wright is considered one of the 20th century's most important architects, and his work credited a precursor to the Modernism movement.
"Wright was one of the most prolific and renowned architects of the 20th century, a radical designer and intellectual who embraced new technologies and materials, pioneered do-it-yourself construction systems as well as avant-garde experimentation, and advanced original theories with regards to nature, urban planning, and social politics," said the museum. Wright's Model of St Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie in New York City, 1927-31 (unbuilt)
Born in June 1867 in Wisconsin, Wright started out working under architects Joseph Lyman Silsbee then Louis Sullivan in Chicago, and established his own practice in the city in 1983.

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