An online journal about visual art, the urban landscape and
design. Mary Louise Schumacher, the Journal Sentinel's art and
architecture critic, leads the discussion and a community of
writers contribute to the dialogue. Frank Lloyd Wright, big
ideas for small homes Frank Lloyd Wright was a man with large
appetites, an infamous ego and what novelist T.C. Boyle
described as a thunder cloud of hair. The man, who wore capes
and carried a cane for emphasis, has rarely been thought of in
small terms. As an architect, his ambitions were embodied in
structures like Taliesin, all openness and rambling lines, a
place so large you can lose your way to the front door, and his
spiral Guggenheim, one of the best examples of I-shall-create-
as-I-please, 20th-century architecture. In a sense, then, it’s
strange to consider that some of Wright’s most lasting ideas,
those that have relevance today, are about smallness and
modesty. What’s not terribly well known about Wright is just how
preoccupied he was with creating artful bu