As a larger than life personality, Frank Lloyd Wright commanded attention, admiration, and wonder at his unquenchable creativity as an architect, designer of landscapes, ornamental patterns, and a way of life. He engaged both triumph and tragedy in his checkered life of nine decades. His self-proclaimed “honest arrogance” charmed and irritated people from all walks of life.
By the time I first visited Taliesin in Spring Green, I had all but discounted Frank Lloyd Wright as a cliche, the cliche, of American architecture. By the time I left from that visit, I was humbled by the architecture and reminded why Wright, after all these years, is still the measure of American architecture and architects.
