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Article: Frank Lloyd Wright: the colorful, eventful life of influential American architect Frank Lloyd Wright has long been the subject of biographers. But a highly creative and sometimes scandalous component of that life called "the fellowship" has never been fully explored. A new book draws back the curtain.(ARCHITECTURE--BEHIND THE SCENES)
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- August 1, 2006
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Most people know that Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) designed Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax building, and the Guggenheim Museum, and many people have heard of his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, and its counterpart in Arizona. But the bizarre world of Wright's Taliesin Fellowship--the reclusive community of live-in apprentices the architect founded in 1932 with his third wife, Olgivanna Hinzenberg--is familiar only to the experts. And even they may not be aware of just how complex, both personally and professionally, the interaction between the Wrights and the Fellowship members actually was.
That relationship is the subject of The Fellowship: The Untold Story of ...