On the CD-ROM titled, Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, FLWF Archives Director Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer eloquently comments on the ever increasing popularity of Mr. Wright's work. He begins by presenting a question. Why is there now this consuming passion for Frank Lloyd Wright's work almost 50 years after his death? He then answers...
"What he did, what he built, what he promulgated, what he believed in, was timeless. He upheld principles that don't know the manner of time. More and more people are being drawn to his work because these principles are as pertinent today as they were 100 years ago."
Mr. Pfeiffer's astute observation accurately captures the reason behind this global phenomena. Many of us connect with Frank Lloyd Wright's work simply because it is timeless. It doesn't matter if you step into an early Prairie home, a California block house, Fallingwater, a Usonian or the Guggenheim. These structures were all built at different times over a 60 year period, but each one evokes a similar feeling of wonder. If we seek out those principles and understand the how and why, we can take that same profound knowledge with us as we move through the 21st century.
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