Frank Lloyd Wright never retired from his profession. In 1957, when he was 90 years old, he received 40 commissions in just one year, a record-breaking number. By the time he died in 1959 at the age of 92, Frank Lloyd Wright had designed more than 1,100 projects, nearly half of which were built. Wright believed that a true American style of architecture could come from the landscape of America rather than styles imported from overseas. He believed that people should be able to afford beautiful places to live rather than settling for the same old styles from hundreds of years ago. His buildings changed the way people lived, worked, and worshipped because Wright responded to the needs of their inhabitants, bringing light and openness into the built environment in a way that had never been done before. Wright always made sure that his buildings were designed organically: from the inside out, as one unit, rather than in bits and pieces. Each building had a relationship with its site so that it looked like it had grown naturally from its surroundings.