Frank Lloyd Wright stressed the importance of individualism and non-conventionalism in throughout his career as an architect. Wright believed that the new styles of modern American architecture during the early 20th century should be created without the influences and teachings of earlier classical architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright opened the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in 1932. Wright designed this institution to teach architects of this time to study architecture and experience architecture in a way that was unprecedented. Wright believed in a system of teaching that would allow students to not only work as an architect but to learn how to live as one as well. Wright incorporated certain beliefs into the Fellowship program that would allow the students to create original architecture. These beliefs included, the belief in “learning by doing”, the belief in the interconnection between the arts and industry, and the belief in the importance of living in coexistence with nature. The Fellowship program at the Frank Lloyd Wright …show more content…
Wright argued that the teachings of the Beaux Arts Institute contaminates the ability of American architects to produce an indigenous democratic style. Wright has gone on to say that the Beaux Arts style strains the ability of young architects to comprehend the meaning of the materials used in architecture. Wright believed that the materials used in architecture should be representative of the original site and that its cohesive properties would enable the overall appearance of the house to be enhanced at the site of construction. In order to combat the styles of the Beaux Arts Institute Wright designed the Fellowship to teach young apprentices to refrain from using this style, and to instead learn how to incorporate organic architecture, economy, and indigenous pattern into their