nique because it had no spire. When presenting his design to the board they told him that it was ludicrous. Though enough of the members voted for the design that Wright was hired. A man named Wasmuth wanted to do a publication of Wrights works in Europe. Wright decided that since his marriage was falling apart he would leave for Germany to supervise the publication. After arriving in Germany Wright found that European architects loved his work. After coming home from Europe, Wright decided to build on a piece of land his mother gave him only a few miles from Spring Green, Wisconsin. He was going to build a house with a workshop attached. He would call it Taliesin after a man From King Arthurs Round Table. Taliesin means glowing brow. At Taliesin he would work away from the city and be in the valley where he grew up. Next he got a contract to build an orchestra hall in Chicago. For this project Wright brought in his son, John. One thing that held up construction was that many people thought that the acoustics would be bad but in the end Wright won them over and construction continued. The workers union held up construction many times almost pushing back the date of completion. After much opposition the building was finished. While Wright was in Chicago a servant had set Taliesin on fire, killing many of Wrights apprentices and servants. In 1915, Taliesin II was finished and with much the same design as the first you could see for miles around. Wright was asked to design the Imperial Hotel in Japan after Taliesin II had been finished. He accepted and he received a formal invitation to come to Japan. In Japan, Wright faced many problems. One was that the ground where the hotel was supposed to be built was eight feet of soil and then mud. Also the problem of frequent earthquakes and the resulting fires posed a threat to the hotel. Wright had to invent a support system to keep the building up during earthquakes. He devise...
