Good Morning Friends,
Continuing with Frank Lloyd Wright we find that his running off to Europe with Mamah Cheney, leaving behind his six children by Catherine and the two Cheney children, and their respective spouses, called on his deepest conviction - a rather exaggerated " Truth Against the World"? Hie Free Style Classification coincided with Free Style ethics. This crisis produced a change in style, a change in philosophy. He started moving continuously, sometimes hiding from the law, and building only thirty four commissions in the next twenty - one years. the first thing he did was to retreat to his family homestead and build a fortress for Mrs. Cheney and himself, ( Taliesin - Welsh for "shining brow") a defensive bastion in the wilderness from which they could fight off the onslaught of big city morality. The "marrying" of building and hill became the first principle of organic architecture, a principal he was later to contradict.

I will continue tomorrow with more on Wright.

Respectfully,

Ralph Jones