
The first ever published collection of letters by Frank Lloyd Wright reveals an articulate genius at his intimate best, witty, wise, wistful, devastating, sometimes all within a single page. The letters presented here have been selected and arranged so as to recapture, in full color, the on-the-spot experience of Frank Lloyd Wright’s culminating burst of creativity. All this, as the letters show, was witnessed and abetted by the Taliesin Fellowship, those many hundreds of young men and women who underwent an architectural education unique in history. The letters to Oud, Mies, Saarinen, Raymond Hood, George Howe, Philip Johnson and the rest present a kaleidoscope of moods, shifting with shifting circumstances, but at core always constant in their defense of the Organic Architecture that Frank Lloyd Wright believed in with all his heart. From the hundreds of clients in his lifetime, and the thousands of letters to and from them, the letters to clients presented here focus upon sixteen representative buildings. These include large buildings and small, early ones and late, buildings for easy clients and for difficult ones, even an unbuilt project for a colorful Hollywood personality.