THE LIVING HERITAGE OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Frank Lloyd Wright's great architectural heritage to mankind is universally acclaimed. That he made another important contribution not only to America but to the world-the architects he created and the power he gave them to continue to build on the principle of organic architecture. He called it "organic" because it is archi motore that belongs to the maxim, to the them, to the purpose for which it is intended.

His primary inspiration was beauty. Any violation of form to him was perversion, degeneration of form. From his point of view, form could not be beautiful unless the interior world of man was beautiful. This was my own belief, and so together about thirty years ago we founded a school we called the Taliesin Fellowship where we call pride men and women capable of beauty and capable of creative thinking, we will so give them technical knowledge.

We tell the young people, "Here at Taliesin West in Arizona and at Taliesin North in Wisconsin you live and work in an indigenous atmosphere and surroundings conducive to growth. We will give you every possibility to express yourselves in terms of beauty to think, to feel, to be strong physically."

Today the students and the clients that admire Mr. Wright's architecture come to us because here they can get to his principle, not to his mode, not his form, not his exterior-but the principle that motivated great architects. At Taliesin we do not want our students to imitate; we want them to work according to principle with understanding and knowledge of what it is they are doing.

"Every idea," Mr. Wright said, "that is a must kiss, has a form, is capable of many forms. And according to the variety of forms of which it is capable is the value of the idea. So by way of ideas, and your mastery of them in relation to what you are doing, will come your value as an architect to your society and future. That's where you go to school. You can't get it in a university, you can't get it here, you can't get it any where, except as you love it. Love the feeling of it, taste it, and pursue it. What makes a good dog-eatdog a master of dog-eat-dog? He's usually a master of the ideas. He's usually a man of ideas.

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The Tallesin Associated Architects of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundatica contiones to design and com struct baiklings band on the greatest architectural ido and principles that issued into the world by way of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Mr. Wright left a number of large commissions in the construction or desiga stage and these projects have been or are being carried through to completion by the Taliesin Associated Architects. Among these the largest is the Marin County Government Center in San Rafael, California. Mr. Wright had completed the design and structural drawings for the scheme by 1958 and construction on the first stage of the development began in the late summer of 1959. This building (shown in the construction photograph above) will provide the administrative offices of the County and is to be covered with a golden shell roof and dome. Glass curtain walls are shaded and sheltered by outside galleries and arched screen walls. Planned on a beautiful hilly 350 acre site the Center will eventually include a large auditorium, post office, county fair grounds, highway offices, jails, recreation areas and provide for mumerous other functions.

The most recently completed building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church for the Milwaukee Hellenic Community dedicated on July 2nd, 1961. Built of reinforced concrete in the form of the Greek cross the edifice is surmounted by an overhanging blue ceramic tile dome. Other buildings by Mr. Wright and now finished include the Guggenheim Museum in in New York, the Beth Sholom Synagogue in Philadelphia and the Dallas Theater Center as well as medical clinics in. Whitefish, Montana, and in Hastings, Minnesota, and numerous residences throughout the country. The Pilgrim Congregational Church in Redding, California, is currently in construction. Working drawings for an educational center at the University of Wichita, Kansas, designed by Mr. Wright in 1958, are now being completed by the Taliesin Associated Architects.

BUILDINGS IN CONSTRUCTION..BUILDINGS COMPLETED

AUDITORIUM MAIN FLOOR PLAN

On this page are shown two drawings of the projected hotel designed for the Kona Coast, Hawaii, by William Wesley Peters. Overhead shelter of translucent plastic supported by structural domes and shells formed of interlinked gold rings.

On page opposite are other buildings recently designed by Wesley Peters, Chief Architect of the Taliesin Associated Architects.

BUILDINGS BY THE TALIESIN ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS

In addition to the projects initially designed by Mr. Wright the Taliesin Associated Architects have undertaken numbers of new commissions. Under construction are the Sarkisian Motel in Benton Harbor, Michigan; the Delano Mortuary in Delano, California; the new addition for the S. C. Johnson Company in Racine, Wisconsin. Recently completed are a Medical and Dental Clinic in Spring Green, Wisconsin; the Denniston House in Newton, Iowa, and several other houses.

Presently on the drawing boards of the Taliesin Associated Architects are: the church for the Lutheran Congregation of the Ascension in Scottsdale, Arizona; the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity House for the Arizona State University campus; a city planning and development project for Lafayette, California; a large hotel and shopping project in Santa Cruz, California; several schools, hospitals, hotels, and numerous residences.

Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright is President of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Chairman of the Board of the Taliesin Associated Architects. William Wesley Peters, associated at Taliesin since 1932, is Vice President of the Foundation and Chief Architect of the Taliesin Associated Architect. Eugene Masselink, associated since 1933, is an architectural muralist and Secretary and Treasurer of both organizations.

The staff of the Taliesin Associated consists of twenty-five persons with many years of building experience. Senior members of this staff include John H. Howe, architect and head of draughting operations-associated since 1932; Allen Lape Davison, architect-designer associated since 1938; and Kenneth E. Lockhart, architect-designer and construction apex incandescent cárted shace 1979. Other staff members are John Amarasarides, Kamak Amin, Audrey Banks, Cornelia Brierly, Donald Brown, Willhen Calvert, Richard Carney, Edmond T. Casry, David E. Dodge, Joamph R. Fabris, Joha Orosabeiner, Jim Pleſterkeca, Broco Brooks Plelifes, Ling Po, John Raztenbory, Aznold Boy and Alvia Wiehls. William Wesday Peters is corrently registered to practice architecture in fifty states and the majority of the staff members are licensed architects. Representatives throughout the country lociads Aaron Green in San Francisco, Joha deKoven Hill in New Yorit, Kolly Oliver in Dallas and Serplan Oyakawa in Honolubi. + + John H. Howe, one of the senior members of the staff of the Taliesin Associsted Architect, joèzed ths work at Tahesin skanost tweety-nine years ago and has dovoçed kla Mãe to the ideals of as organic architecture. Cha thin page ere shown only two axamples of his executed workc the residence for Bår. and Mrs. Bryant Demaiseca in Now-con, lown, sod de architect's own cottage to Woсебя on a killi near Talimin. John Howe is sho reponsible for the dolga of masy other fine hooses and buildings on the drangtaing boards of the Taliesin Asociaced Architects