Rebel Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright | Timothy Sandefur

If you’ve seen Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings, you can understand why people come from far and wide to experience them in person. Wright was a pathbreaker whose ideas, innovations, and creative genius transformed the field of architecture. He also loved Arizona, his adopted state, and home to eleven of his buildings, including Taliesin West, his winter abode and studio in Scottsdale. In this talk, Timothy Sandefur discusses Wright’s works, his rebellious philosophy of design, and why he loved building in Arizona.

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You mean the guy who designed and built houses where the roofs leaked, the walls got damp, and they were drafty and expensive to heat and cool. Also they deteriorated faster than conventional houses and they needed constant maintenance. Some of them were even designed so irrationally that the residents found it difficult if not impossible to move standard home furnishings like beds into and out of them.

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Was Wright an innovative architect-perhaps the most innovative in American history? Yes. In relation to his innovation, the flaws of his architecture (if they are true) are mostly irrelevant - as these are flaws typical of most architects. What matters most is that Wrights innovations’ stood out from all others, not standard leaky roofs.