Frank Lloyd Wright was a mess. His personal life — the wives, the mistresses, the abandoned children, the crazed servant who set a tragic fire . . . . How did he ever get something like 300 buildings designed even over an extraordinarily long lifetime? His utter certainty and arrogance were usually ill-disguised. He sometimes under-engineered his buildings (even when his innovations were ahead of their time). His indifference to leaks and upwardly spiraling budgets was infamous And yet, in … [Read more...]