Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives : Taliesin Fellowship talk transcripts and audio recordings, 1948-1956

Abstraction, Modern Art

The Corner Window

Discipleship

The Gurdjieff Movements

European Trip, London

Profession Of Architecture

Japanese Print Party At a showing of Japanese prints (Taliesin, Wisconsin)

1: Becoming Articulate; 2: Talk by Dr. Spivey / Commemoration of Mr. Gurdjieff by FLLW

The Golden Calf

Introduction of the de Hartmanns

About Florida Southern College - Ludd Spivey ; Commemoration of Mr. Gurdjieff - Frank lloyd Wright

Publication and Architecture

Exploitation of Italian Exhibition

Breakfast Table Conversation

Civilization Without Culture

Civilization Without Culture

Anarchy

Easter Breakfast Discussion

Acoustics

Trip To Italy, 60 Years Of Living Architecture

Man And The Machine, United Nations, Nat. Traits

The Vickers Project - Detroit

Reading of Walt Whitman

Dedication of the Unitarian Church, Madison Speech delivered at the dedication of the Unitarian Church (Madison, Wisconsin)

Education (With Dr. Spivey)

The American Scholar (Emerson)

Discussion With Arthur Holden And Leigh Stevens

Usonia and Finance

India with guests

1: Prelude To Fame (Comments On Film); 2: Semantics

Semantics

The Great Act

Organic Architecture Looks At Modern Architecture

Change And Experiment; Art, Man And Culture

Art, Man And Culture

Saturday Evening Music And Comments

Destruction of Architecture as a Box

Unity

Unity

Architectural Means

Architectural Means

Story Behind Willits House / Imperial Hotel / Principle

Plasticity / Terminals / Third Dimension / Music & Architecture

Values of Life at Taliesin

Fellowship / Gurdjieff's School & Visit here / Value of correlated body - Iovanna & Movements / Meaning of names / Spirit & Soul - Incarnation

Japanese Prints - an Interpretation

Reading Walt Whitman 1860 Edition / Comments on Walt Whitman

Stevenson for President / Traveling Theatre / Time as a scale / Responsibility of Architects to culture and democracy / Build Movements Pavilion - Value of Movements / Sacrifice

Education & Culture / Licensing - Codes / Freedom / Missionaryism

Culture and Education Lecture at the University of Wisconsin

On Desert Life

Life of Fellowship

The Ability to Learn

On World Politics

Discussion with Eric Bass, Couturier

Conversation with Charles Laughton on Shakespeare, Truth, God, Plato, and Laotse

Froebel

Seven Architectural Definitions

Business and Finance / Air Conditioning in Arizona

Reading of Paper on International Style

Beginning of Fellowship / Choice of site for Taliesin West / Desire for a "big job

Talk with Dale Nichols

International Style, Reading Paper

Sea Shells, Housing, Science, Discovery

Aristocracy & Democracy / Our Civilization today / Architecture must Lead Culture

Discussion of International Style with Elizabeth Gordon, Joe Barry and Jim Fitch

Decentralization - Freedom / Philosophy the Architectural Problem

The American Village - Structural Study

Study of Architecture through study of Nature / Economy and Exuberance of Nature

The Words Functional & Functionalism / Architectural degeneracy - The Esthete Affirmation / Discussion on Air Conditioning and the Adelmans with Sam Lewis

Unesco

Building Codes

Museum Design with Mr. Washburn of the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh

Responsibility in Fellowship Life - N.Y. Trip

Destruction of the Box

Proportion and Principle

Building New York Exhibition Pavilion

The Creative Act

The American Town

Exhibition House in New York City

On Lewis Mumford Article

Discussion with Dr. Hanna on Philippines

On Lewis Mumford Article

Origin of Red Square, Anarchy, and Being "Awake

Greek Architecture

Criticism, Bartlesville

The Critical Spirit

Reading of the Charles Lindbergh Article

Furniture Design For Industry

Giving a meaning to "The Fellowship

Fundamentals of Line & Plane

Questions about House Construction

Re-Recording of Ben Raeburn's Questions

Japan and the Imperial Hotel

End of the Season Talk

Iovanna's Engagement, Mr. Wright's Trip, Design, Tableware

The Japanese Print, Froebel & Their Influence

Usonian Automatic

Architectural Profession; Add Tired To Tired; Plaza

Taliesin and what it means - the Apprentice

At the Unitarian Church Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Chorus at the Unitarian Church (Madison, Wisconsin)

Broadacre City

The Profession

The Seasons Of Civilization

Dante and the Renaissance

Usonian Automatic / Plant Trees / Poet / Architect / Mystical

Arizona Discussion with Eduardo Torroja

Canada and the United States One?

Architecture and Life in the Desert

Geology as Architecture

The One-Room House

Proportion

Questions and Answers

Democracy, Aristocracy and the Fellowship

The Vanishing Craftsman

The Usonian Automatic House

Questions and Answers, part I

The Great Tradition (Cornet Magazine questions)

The City

Questions and Answers, part II

Questions and Answers, part III

The Nature of a Rose

Principle of Growth

Talk to the American Institute of Architects

Talk with Dr. Neufert

Girls Colleges / Magazines / New Canaan

Architects & Engineers

Air Force Academy Interview in Washington

Weeding, Cultivation, Beauty, Moraltiy, Ethics

To the Fellowship

Architect-Engineer

Age of Elegance

Address At The Unitarian Church, Madison, Wi

Environment / Taste Built Civilization

Architect and Architecture

Dallas Theatre / LHS Swallower? / Heritage-Henredon Furniture / Industry

Organic Architecture / Abstraction / Materials

The Volunteer

Untitled

Advice to the Young Architect, Oak Park Work / The Architect and Government / Codes and Authority

Decline of Architecture

Landscape; Observation; Jensen; Masieri; Giotto

Urbanism

Talk With Paul Hanna

Talk with Carmen Jones

Architecture

A Reading of William Blake

Japanese Culture

Form Follows Function - Study of Nature of Nature

Common Man

Free Form

A Reading of Victor Hugo

Tokyo, Vlasov and Bruker Lanse

A Reading of Walt Whitman's "A Song of Myself

Organic Architecture

Value of Architectural License

Professionalism

Untitled

Trip to Wales

Common Man - "Forbidden Planet

Common, Uncommon Man Talk to the STA (Society of the Typographic Arts?)

Mile High Building and Exhibition in Chicago

The American Home and the Common Man

Pre-Fab House (Erdman) And The Mile High

Erdman House - choice of name

Frank Lloyd Wright Day Dinner Speeches Speech at the Sherman Hotel (Chicago, Illinois)

Definition of Genius / Louis Sullivan / Mile High - Aspiration of the Spire

Education / Definition of a Genius

Urban Planning / Fellowship Drawings / New Education

Education and the Categorical Imperative

Proportion / Froebel / Education / University / SRG Museum

Broadacre City

The Common Man, Taliesin, Education

The Seer, the Doer and the Knower (Disciples, Religion, Education, Growth, Freedom, Genius)

Buildings for Publication / War and Inorganic Condition / The Principle of Humanity

Designing a Capitol for Arizona

Value of Working with Materials

The Master Poet

Journalism / Professionalism in Architecture / American Institute of Architecture

The Last Renaissance for Humanity

Arizona Capitol (Teenager Reaction) / Desert Animals - Snakes - Color

Trip to Sumeria and Baghdad

The Youth of America / The Poetic Principle / Monona Terrace / State of Wisconsin / Baghdad

Mediocrity and Education

Romance : A Striving for Beauty / Taste, Tradition, Architecture Past and Future / Faith in Outcome of Organic Architecture in the U.S.A

Steel and Wood in Architecture

Philology: Sensationalism and Quality

Marin County

The Committee Meeting Mind / (Human Scale in Architecture, Education of Children)

City Planning

The Shining brow: John Donald interviews Olgivanna on the occasion of the release of the biography of Frank Lloyd Wright

New York City / Housing Quadruple / (The Middle East, Negroes and Whites)

The Creative Individual in the Capitalist System / (Speculation, Ugliness, Sumeria, A.I.A.)

Democracy and Education / Reality and the Common Man

Mass Media, Technology and Nature Study / (Television, Production-Consumption, Rent, Photography, Japanese Art and the Abstraction)

Contemporary English Architecture / (Discussion with Colonel Henson)

Japanese Print Party

Arrangements & Dress

Spirit of Work

The City & the Future

Modern Lighting / Appliances vs. Man / The Feudal City - Pattern

Materials & Technology

Speaks To The Fellowship

Mr. Wright and Mr. Evjue Discuss Films & TV

Presentation of Marin County Drawings

Politics, Profit System, Corporations

Writers - Lecture Tour, Spring 1958 / (Festival, Tourists at Taliesin West)

The Depth Dimension (Reality, Experience, True Study, Poetry and Romance)

Nature and God

O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)

Monona Terrace

The Common Man (Democracy and Aristocracy, the Machine Age, Nature and God)

On the Job

Ethics of Building

Architectural Forum article by Peter Blake

Appearance, Dress, Trip to Washington, Carl Sandburg

Mr. and Mrs. Wright

Nature of Materials

Organic Sense Of Proportion

Use of Materials

Thought-Built Buildings

Sumeria and Religion

Sycophants

Russian Culture and Modern Art

Address to the students of Camelback High School (Phoenix, Arizona)

Nature as Body of God

Conversation with Stuart Weiner

Conversation with Cranston Jones

Architectural History

Origins of Architecture

The Swan

Untitled

Taliesin Education and American Culture. Talk to the University of New Mexico

Talk to the Citizen's League of Minneapolis

Lecture given to the School of Architecture, University of Oklahoma

The Creative Mind Broadcast, WGBH-FM

The Architect and Architecture / Education and the Teenager Talk at the University of Arkansas

Architecture as Mother Art / Romanticism and Sentimentalism / Collectivism in Architecture

Architecture and Culture

Talk to the American Institute of Architects (Miami, Florida)

Talk with Buckminister Fuller

Talk to the University of California

Capitol for State of Arizona Talk to Phoenix Union High School

What's the Matter with America? / Culture, Organic Architecture, American Spirit, Integrity (Los Angeles, California)

The American Home: The Usonian Automatic / (the Orient, the David Wright House, Fallingwater) Interview on WTMJ (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

1: Price Tower; 2: Third Dimension, Destruction Of The Box; 3: Interview At Taliesin West For Tv Show

Acceptance Address, Edited By Frank Lloyd Wright; AIA Gold Medal, AIA 81st convention, Houston

Compilation of talks to the Taliesin Fellowship for CBS/ Kronkite

Compilation of talks to the Taliesin Fellowship for the BBC

Plaza Interview with Jeffrey Ellis Aronin

Lecture to the American Institute of Architects (Detroit, Michigan)

Development of the Individual, True Apprenticeship

English Language, Education, Greek Culture

Teacher, Inspiration Both Ways, Faith, Spirit

Untitled

Trip to Florida Southern College, Reba Kelley, Spivey, Meeting with Truman, Thomas Jefferson, National Gallery, Grand Rapids, Richmond - president AIA, Francis Biddle, Lord Gellico

Heritage-Henredon Meeting : Frank Lloyd Wright Talk

Untitled

Audio recording orginally located with other recordings for the Saturday Evening Concert collection.

Audio recording orginally located with other recordings for the Saturday Evening Concert collection.