a servant at Taliesin murdered Cheney, her two children, and four other people before setting the place on fire. He began to rebuild Taliesin right immediately after the fire.After Catherine granted him a divorce in 1922, he married Miriam Noel. She was a very emotional unstable woman. He separated form her not too long afterwards. In 1927 he got a divorce from Miriam. In 1927, he married His third wife. Olgivanna Milanoff was the wife that he would finally stay with. They would live at the rebuilt Taliesin, which became his studio and a center for training apprentices in his architectural principles. He later built Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, and from then on, the studio and apprentices moved to Arizona for the winter.Wright created the philosophy of “organic architecture,” the center principle of which maintains that the building should develop out of its natural surroundings. From the outset he exhibited bold originality in his designs for both private and public structures and rebelled against the ornate neoclassic and Victorian styles favored by conventional architects. Wright believe that each building should have its own identity and it should be determined in each case by the particular function of the building, its environment, and the type of materials used in the structure. He used various building materials for their natural colors and textures, as well as for their structural characteristics. He developed rooms that have a sense of spaciousness, which derives from open planning with one room flowing into another. This showed up in his early single-family houses, the so-called prairie houses. He started many new techniques, such as the precast concrete blocks reinforced by steel rods. Among his most remarkable engineering feats was the design of the huge Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Constructed to withstand earthquakes. To obtain the required flexibility, he used cantilever construction with a...
