In 1928, Wright married his third wife, Olga (Olgivanna) Ivanovna Lazovich - who also went by the name Olga Lazovich Milanov, after her famous grandfather Marko. In 1925 another fire, this one caused by an electrical problem, destroyed Taliesin, forcing him to rebuild it once again. Returning to the United States, he married a sculptor named Miriam Noel in 1923 they stayed together for four years before divorcing in 1927. Working with the acclaimed publisher Ernst Wasmuth, Wright put together two portfolios of his work while in Germany that further raised his international profile as one of the top living architects. In 1909, after 20 years of marriage, Wright suddenly abandoned his wife, children and practice and moved to Germany with a woman named Mamah Borthwick Cheney, the wife of a client. While such works made Wright a celebrity and his work became the subject of much acclaim in Europe, he remained relatively unknown outside of architectural circles in the United States. Wright's most celebrated 'Prairie School' buildings include the Robie House in Chicago and the Unity Temple in Oak Park. These were single-story homes with low, pitched roofs and long rows of casement windows, employing only locally available materials and wood that was always unstained and unpainted, emphasizing its natural beauty. Over the next several years, Wright designed a series of residences and public buildings that became known as the leading examples of the 'Prairie School' of architecture. Wright worked for Sullivan until 1893 when he breached their contract by accepting private commissions to design homes and the two parted ways. Prairie School ArchitectureĪ year later, Wright began an apprenticeship with the Chicago architectural firm of Adler and Sullivan, working directly under Louis Sullivan, the great American architect best known as 'the father of skyscrapers.' Sullivan, who rejected ornate European styles in favor of a cleaner aesthetic summed up by his maxim 'form follows function,' had a profound influence on Wright, who would eventually carry Sullivan's dream of defining a uniquely American style of architecture to completion. The experience convinced Wright that he wanted to become an architect, and in 1887 he dropped out of school to go to work for Silsbee in Chicago. To pay his tuition and help support his family, he worked for the dean of the engineering department and assisted the acclaimed architect Joseph Silsbee with the construction of the Unity Chapel. That year, Wright enrolled at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to study civil engineering. In 1885, the year Wright graduated from high school in Madison, his parents divorced and his father moved away, never to be heard from again.

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