Death Anniversary: Frank Lloyd Wright — April 9, 1959

Frank Lloyd Wright died at Phoenix, Arizona, on 9 April 1959, at almost ninety-two, with the Guggenheim in New York still under construction: the museum opened a few months after his death. He left hundreds of completed buildings and an idea of architecture — organic, horizontal, woven into the landscape — that has shaped generations of designers. The anniversary marks a long and tireless master, from the prairie houses to the last geometric inventions.