13-05-2025 11:00 via openculture.com

How Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture Evolved Over 70 Years and Changed America

In the new Architectural Digest video above, Michael Wyetzner talks about a fair few buildings we’ve featured over the years here on Open Culture: the Imperial Hotel, the Ennis House, Taliesin, Fallingwater. These are all, of course, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, who still stands as the embodiment of American architecture more than 65 years after his death. That’s a fairly long stretch by modern standards, but nevertheless a shorter one than Wright’s career, which ran over 70
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