1950's Fashion | "Frank Lloyd Wright Talks of His Art"

Magazine article

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

Date: October 4, 1953

Source: Wright, Frank Lloyd. "Frank Lloyd Wright Talks of His Art." The New York Times Magazine, Oct 4, 1953, 26–7, 47.

About the Author: Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) was born in rural Wisconsin, but moved to Madison as a boy, where he attended high school. He spent summers on his uncle's Wisconsin farm. He left high school before graduating to work for the dean of the University of Wisconsin's engineering department. Wright took some courses in civil engineering at the university before leaving Wisconsin—at the age of twenty—to work for an architect in Chicago. He soon became a draftsman at one of the nation's leading architectural firms, which was known for its innovative skyscrapers, and rose to become its chief designer. He had gained considerable success as an architect in the early part of the...