Working with Mr. Wright
Working with Mr. Wright
Out of Print
Working with Mr Wright. is a personal recollection by one of Frank Lloyd Wright's former apprentices of his years at the Taliesin Fellowship. Curtis Besinger provides a lively account of daily life in this community of architects established by Wright in Wisconsin and Arizona. An apprenticeship with the Fellowship entailed architectural tasks, such as drafting, designing, and overseeing projects, including the actual building of Taliesin West; as well as humbler assignments - from milking the cows to harvesting wheat - related to maintaining the farm that surrounds the Fellowship in Wisconsin. The social life of the Fellowship, filled with music and film, and planned in detail by Wright himself, is also recounted with wit and humor. Through these engaging recollections, illustrated with photographs, plans, and drawings made during Besinger's years at the Fellowship, Wright's eccentric personality, his working practices, and his unique creative vision emerge, along with a host of personalities who contributed to the unique Taliesin experience.
- Insider's view of working closely with Frank Lloyd Wright at the Taliesin Fellowship
- Covers Frank Lloyd Wright's most productive period - 1939 to 1955
- Also recounts the social atmosphere of the Fellowship
Product details
September 1995Hardback
9780521481229
335 pages
261 × 210 × 25 mm
1.234kg
110 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print April 2003
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword James F. O'Gorman
- Introduction
- 1. Summer 1939 - visit to Taliesin
- 2. Fall 1939
- 3. Construction of Mr. and Mrs. Wright's quarters
- 4. The Los Angeles trip
- 5. Migration to Wisconsin - 1940
- 6. Summer 1940
- 7. Movies
- 8. Summer and fall 1940 - work in the drafting room
- 9. The war in Europe
- 10. The exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 11. Winter in Arizona 1940–1941
- 12. Spring 1941
- 13. The fellowship and the draft
- 14. Spring, summer, early fall, 1941, in Kansas city
- 15. Winter 1941–1942, spring 1942
- 16. Music
- 17. Spring and summer 1942
- 18. Winter 1942–1943
- 19. Spring and summer 1943
- 20. Interlude 1943–1946 and 'work of national importance'
- 21. Summer 1946
- 22. Winter 1946–1947
- 23. Spring and summer 1947
- 24. Winter 1947–1948
- 25. Summer 1948
- 26. Winter 1948–1949
- 27. Summer 1949
- 28. Winter 1949–1950
- 29. Summer 1950
- 30. Winter 1950–1951
- 31. Summer 1951
- Winter 1951–1952
- 32. Summer 1952
- 33. Winter 1952–1953
- 34. Summer 1953
- 35. Winter 1953–1954
- 36. Summer 1954
- 37. Winter 1954–1955
- 38. Summer 1955
- Notes
- Personae
- Sources
- Appendix.
