as in Arizona, in a house called Taliesin West. At Taliesin west there was a great room that could seat eighty people. The walls and ceilings were open and at night tarps were pulled down over them to keep out the cold. At both houses apprentices kept themselves busy by making minor repairs on the house, the studio or build new buildings. As well as farm work, house work and whatever else came along. They fixed broken pipes, and during the depression in the 1930s, they cut their own wood and quarried their own stone. They also grew their own produce that they stored in a root cellar for winter or times when food supply was short. At first the tuition was only six hundred dollars, which included room and board. After the first year though the tuition went up to around eight hundred dollars because the apprentices were fed well and they were supplied with all of the things they needed to build and design. Wright believed that each apprentice should be able to express themselves, so he let each apprentice decorate their own room at the beginning of each year. Wright designed many buildings that were never built, some have even been built since his death. He died on April 9, 1959. Frank Lloyd Wright through the Eyes of Aylesa Forsee Aylesa Forsee writes mainly of Wrights life as an architect and only briefly mentions his private life, in the book Frank Lloyd Wright: A Rebel in Concrete . She writes of him laughing as his children laugh during the holidays, and him taking personal exile and leaving his first wife to go to Germany. The last sentence of the book, reads Wrights genius will never die. She also never mentions any of his mistresses, whom I have found a lot of information about while doing other research. For these reasons I feel that she is lavish in her opinions of him, in other words biased towards him and his work as well as his beliefs. She makes him out to be a great man whose work should have been acc...
