101. Wisconsin’s Master Architect with Sharon McMahon

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In today’s episode, Sharon dives beyond the basics to talk about the life and career of a man with whom you may already be familiar: Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright’s legendary career spanned seventy years but his personal life is just as often talked about as his revolutionary building style. Learn a little more about his eccentricities, his love of fancy, expensive things, his scandalous romances, and even a word we use regularly today that didn’t exist before Frank made it up.

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0:00.0	Hello my friends, always excited to have you with me and I'm going to give you a
0:05.0	little content warning right off the top. This episode has some things that are
0:09.8	very interesting but are also about people who die and so this episode might not
0:14.8	be appropriate for young children. Just want to let you know put your headphones
0:18.8	on or listen to it when kids are not in the car. So today I want to chat with you
0:23.6	about a very famous world famous Wisconsinite. You undoubtedly know who this
0:28.9	person is but I'm gonna give you some brain tangles that you probably did not
0:34.4	know. So let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So
0:40.7	Podcast. Alright I bet you know who world famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright is.
0:47.4	Right? He designed over 11 hundred buildings in his lifetime, almost 500 of them
0:53.6	actually got made and that is a huge legacy to leave the architectural world.
0:58.6	Very few people get to say that they have a revolutionized an entire field. That
1:03.6	is such a rarity. Fun fact there is a gas station designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
1:09.1	near me and his projects ranged from very simple modest middle class homes to
1:15.4	huge museums. He designed a Guggenheim to massive skyscrapers and large
1:22.7	hotels. He was a pioneer of a new sort of school of architecture in many ways and
1:30.6	you can actually look back to Frank Lloyd Wright's life before he was even born.
1:35.8	He was born in 1867 by the way. Where little eccentricity of Frank Lloyd Wright is
1:41.8	that he constantly claimed that he was born two years after he was actually born.
1:47.4	So much so that it confused biographers, it confused people like the New York Times
1:52.6	where they were going to print his obituary. So his father was a musician and a composer and a
1:58.3	minister and his mother was a well known member of sort of a more prominent family in Wisconsin.
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