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Growing up in Oak Park, Illinois, John Lloyd Wright spent hour after hour in the “wonderland playroom” designed by his father. Underneath a soaring barrel-vaulted ceiling, the second child of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright constructed his own wonders using just his imagination and a collection of assorted building blocks developed by Friedrich Froebel, the German educator who championed the concept of kindergarten.
By the time he turned 24, John was working side-by-side with his father as chief assistant on the design of Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel. Faced with the challenge of building a structure that could withstand the powerful earthquakes that regularly shook Japan, Frank Lloyd Wright sketched an ingenious design that relied on a system of interlocking timber beams that would allow the hotel to sway but not collapse in case of a tremor. (The Imperial Hotel would indeed be one of the few buildings that remained standing after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo.
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John Lloyd Wright
American architect (1892–1972)
John Lloyd Wright | |
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| Born | (1892-12-12)December 12, 1892 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | December 20, 1972(1972-12-20) (aged 80) Del Mar, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouses | Jeanette Winters (m. 1913; div. 1920)Hazel Lundin (m. 1921; div. 1942)Frances Welch (m. 1946) |
| Children | Elizabeth Wright Ingraham |
| Parent(s) | Frank Lloyd Wright Catherine Tobin |
| Projects | Long Beach, Indiana |
John Lloyd Wright (December 12, 1892 – December 20, 1972) was an American architect and toy inventor. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Wright was the second-oldest son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. John Lloyd Wright became estranged from his father in 1909 and subsequently left his home to join his brother on the West Coast. After unsuccessfull