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Read the passage and answer the following question Considered the most influential architect of his time, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)was born in the small rural community of Richland Centre, Wisconsin. He entered the University of Wisconsin at the age of 15 as a special student, studying engineering because the school had no course in architecture. At the age of 20 he then went to work as a draughtsman in Chicago in order to learn the traditional, classical language of architecture. After marrying into a wealthy business family at the age of 21, Wright set up house in an exclusive neighbourhood in Chicago, and after a few years of working for a number of architectural firms, set up his own architectural office. For twenty years he brought up a family of six children upstairs, and ran a thriving architectural practice of twelve or so draughtsmen downstairs. Here, in an idyllic American suburb, with giant oaks, sprawling lawns, and no fences, Wright built some sixty rambling homes by the year 1900. He became the leader of a style known as the “Prairie” school - houses with low-pitched roofs and extended lines that blended into the landscape and typified his style of “organic architecture”. By the age of forty-one, in 1908, Wright had achieved extraordinary social and professional success. He gave countless lectures at major universities, and started his Taliesin Fellowship – a visionary social workshop in itself. In 1938 he appeared on the cover of Time magazine, and later, on a two cent stamp. The most spectacular buildings of his mature period were based on forms borrowed from nature, and the intentions were clearly romantic, poetic, and intensely personal. Examples of these buildings are Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel (1915-22: demolished 1968), and New York City’s Guggenheim Museum (completed 1959). He continued working until his death in 1959, at the age of 92, although in his later years, he spent as much time giving interviews and being a celebrity, as he did in designing buildings. Wright can be considered an essentially idiosyncratic architect whose influence was immense but whose pupils were few.
Frank Lloyd Wright first worked as a draughtsman because
For twenty years he lived above his shop and employed draughtsmen
To learn the language of architecture
That is what he studied at the University of Wisconsin
That is the work of new employees in architectural firms
- Option 1: He lived above his shop and employed draughtsmen for twenty years. This refers to his later period when he ran his own practice.
- Option 2: To learn the language of architecture. He worked as a draughtsman in Chicago to learn classical architecture, as there was no architecture course available in his university.
- Option 3: It states he studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin, not specifically draughtsmanship.
- Option 4: While draughtsman work is common for new employees, the passage explicitly notes Wright's purpose was to learn architectural skills.
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