An Architect Designs Glass

Recognized today as one of the most significant architects of the twentieth century, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867- 1959) is less well known as one of America's premier designers of stained-glass windows. From his earliest architectural designs of 1885 through 1923, Wright designed over 160 structures with leaded-glass windows, of which almost 100 were built. This vast corpus of stained glass rivals the output of his contemporaries Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) and John La Farge (1835- 1910). Rejecting their taste for illusionistic glass pictures, Wright invented a new style that combined expanses of clear glass with touches of color in bold geometric patterns.

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