WRIGHT,
FRANK LLOYD

(June 8, 1867–April 9, 1959), was an American architect, known for his bold originality of design. Famous edifices designed by him are: the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan (1916); the Millard House, Pasadena, California (1923); Oak Park Unity Temple, outside Chicago, Illinois (1904); and Taliesin, his private residence, Spring Green, Wisconsin (1911). He founded and directed “The Taliesin Fellowship,” an experimental school of the arts, and published the magazine Taliesin. His works include: In the Cause of Architecture (1909–1923); An Inscription of Japanese Prints (1912); Experimenting with Human Lives (1923); Modern Architecture (1931); An Autobiography—Frank Lloyd Wright (1932; 1943); When Democracy Builds (1946); and Genius and the Mobocracy (1941).

On November 27, 1955, in a lecture in Boston, Massachusetts, as reported in The New York Times Magazine, Frank Lloyd Wright stated:

Civilization: Art and religion are the soul of our civilization. Go to them, for there love exists.3163

On June 3, 1956, in an address entitled “The Architect Preaches a Sermon,” Church of the Divine Paternity, New York, Frank Lloyd Wright stated:

The common man is a man who believes in only what he sees and he sees only what he can put his hand on. … He is on speaking terms with progress, and progress must be in spite of him, although for him.3164