This architectural history seminar investigates the career, context, and legacy of the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. We will attempt to understand the great variety of work and ideas produced by Wright over seven decades, as well as the context which stimulated and fed off of his designs. The seminar will focus on issues including: 1) Wright's buildings and projects; 2) the concept of organic architecture; 3) the historical and intellectual climate that gave rise to FLW's work; 4) investigations of Wright's progressive clients, innovative use of building materials, changing design theories, invented building systems, radical social & political theories, broad urban experiments, and publishing prowess; 5) the influences Wright had on modern architecture worldwide, especially the tremendous influence he had in America through his own buildings, writings and lectures, as well as some 1200 disciples he trained through his Taliesin Fellowship.
