Apprentice to genius: Years with Frank Lloyd Wright

Apprentice to genius: Years with Frank Lloyd Wright by Tafel, Edgar.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780070628151.

Years with Frank Lloyd Wright: Apprentice to Genius by Edgar Tafel is a 1979 memoir detailing Tafels nine years (1932–1941) as an apprentice living and working under Frank Lloyd Wright. The book offers a rare, firsthand look at the daily life and creative environment of the newly established Taliesin Fellowship in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona. Key Themes and Highlights The Creative Process: Tafel shares intimate accounts of how Frank Lloyd Wright designed major twentieth-century masterpieces, including Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax Building, and Wingspread. It includes the famous, fast-paced story of the drafting of Fallingwater. Life in the Fellowship: Details the migration of apprentices between Wisconsin and Arizona, participating in hands-on construction, farming, cooking, and drafting alongside the master. Wrights Personality: Portrays Frank Lloyd Wright as a charismatic, cantankerous, and demanding visionary who wore his signature cape and cane while driving a generation of young architects. Architectural Philosophy: Explores Wrights organic architecture, his practical development of affordable Usonian homes, and his outspoken disdain for the Bauhaus school