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...probably the most important Wright-designed project never executed in his lifetime. Monona Terrace is a five-level, semicircular, 1.8 hectare convention center now under construction at the edge of Lake Monona in Madison. Wright spent his youth in the state capital, which is about 65 km east of Taliesin (Welsh for "shining brow"), his home and architecture school at Spring Green. Those historic connections with Madison must have given Wright a special feeling for Monona Terrace. Between 1938 and 1958, he designed at least four different versions of the project. (His pupil and son-in-law William Wesley Peters...
Opponents also charge that much of the Terrace's design will be no better than guesswork by architects from the master's school at Taliesin West in Arizona, who are supervising the construction. Wright completed only a handful of sketches for the Terrace's interior, so the project supervisors have had to imitate colors, textures and materials used by Wright in other designs of the 1950s. Says architectural historian Narciso Menocal: "It's like finding a 15-page synopsis of a Hawthorne novel and having someone else turn it into a 500-page book. Whose novel is that...
...Taliesin-trained architect Anthony Puttnam, who was a Wright apprentice back in the '50s, defends the project's authenticity. "I don't think we've done anything that Wright wouldn't have done," Puttnam says. "He was very open to change. He knew the importance of accommodating the client...
...TALIESIN WEST: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S ARIZONA LEGACY, Scottsdale. There have long been daily tours, but now the master's Western architecture school and home is offering special seminars and musical performances, as well as expanded tours each Thursday, featuring spaces never before open to the public. Through April...
...would be granted U.S. citizenship only in 1978, felt alone in a strange country and seemed particularly vulnerable to the stresses of late motherhood. Having gained custody of Olga by the terms of her 1973 divorce from Peters, she refused to allow the child to visit her father at Taliesin West. Thus thwarted, the busy architect rarely went to see Olga and, though he corresponded with her, remained a more remote figure than Olga's aunt, Margedant. It was "Aunt Marge" who was to provide Olga with her strongest American roots. The child stayed with the Hayakawas in Washington, when...