Crossing Boundaries with Frank Lloyd Wright: How Ornament Led to Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright, America's most noted architect, crossed boundaries as he thought and as he designed. He discussed subjects like democracy, machine, convention, alternatively as advocate and adversary, and his architecture crossed the line between inside and out with projections and recesses whose complex boundaries add depth to our experience of architecture and to our understanding of ideas.

Wright also crossed boundaries of tradition in search of a new architecture he called "organic a...