Working With Mr. Wright

As a former apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship program, Curtis Besinger provides a lively account of daily life in this community of architects established by Wright in Wisconsin and Arizona. While an apprenticeship with the Fellowship was unlike standard architectural training, it did entail some architectural tasks, such as drafting, designing, and overseeing projects, including the actual building of Taliesin West. It also entailed many humbler assignments - from milking the cows to harvesting wheat - related to maintaining the farm that surrounds the Fellowship in Wisconsin. Besinger recounts that Wright himself planned most of the social life of the Fellowship. Through his recollections, illustrated with photographs, plans, and drawings made during his years at the Fellowship, Besinger is able to complete a portrait of Wright as a living person -- his eccentric personality, his working practices, and his unique creative vision.