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

Series III: Audio Recordings

This series consists of 261 audio recordings (from 353 open audio reels), which have been digitized and are available online to Columbia affilates (and available to our public in our reading room). The recordings are listed under their associated reel number and are arranged in reel number order. To search the audio recordings, it is recommened that a researher use the transcript listing (Series I and Series II) to identify the talk they are interested in. Each trascript includes an associated reel number, which can be used to identify the related recording found in this series. For the most part, there is a recording for every transcript listed in Series I and Series II.


Reel #001

Abstraction, Modern Art


Reel #002

The Corner Window


Reel #003

Discipleship


Reel #004

The Gurdjieff Movements


Reel #005

European Trip, London


Reel #006

Profession Of Architecture


Reel #007

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


Reel #008

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


Reel #009

The Golden Calf


Reel #010

Introduction of the de Hartmanns


Reel #011

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


Reel #012

Publication and Architecture


Reel #013

Exploitation of Italian Exhibition


Reel #014

Breakfast Table Conversation


Reel #015

Civilization Without Culture


Reel #015

Civilization Without Culture


Reel #016

Anarchy


Reel #017

Easter Breakfast Discussion


Reel #018

Acoustics


Reel #019

Trip To Italy, 60 Years Of Living Architecture


Reel #020

Man And The Machine, United Nations, Nat. Traits


Reel #021

The Vickers Project - Detroit


Reel #022

Reading of Walt Whitman


Reel #023

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


Reel #024

Education (With Dr. Spivey)


Reel #025

The American Scholar (Emerson)


Reel #026

Discussion With Arthur Holden And Leigh Stevens


Reel #027

Usonia and Finance


Reel #028

India with guests


Reel #029

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


Reel #030

Semantics


Reel #032

The Great Act


Reel #034

Organic Architecture Looks At Modern Architecture


Reel #035; Reel #036

Change And Experiment; Art, Man And Culture


Reel #036

Art, Man And Culture


Reel #038

Saturday Evening Music And Comments


Reel #041

Destruction of Architecture as a Box


Reel #042

Unity


Reel #042

Unity


Reel #043

Architectural Means


Reel #043

Architectural Means


Reel #044

Story Behind Willits House / Imperial Hotel / Principle


Reel #045

Plasticity / Terminals / Third Dimension / Music & Architecture


Reel #046

Values of Life at Taliesin


Reel #047

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


Reel #048

Japanese Prints - an Interpretation


Reel #049

Reading Walt Whitman 1860 Edition / Comments on Walt Whitman


Reel #050

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


Reel #051

Education & Culture / Licensing - Codes / Freedom / Missionaryism


Reel #052

Culture and Education Lecture at the University of Wisconsin


Reel #053

On Desert Life


Reel #054

Life of Fellowship


Reel #055

The Ability to Learn


Reel #056

On World Politics


Reel #057

Discussion with Eric Bass, Couturier


Reel #058

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


Reel #059

Froebel


Reel #060

Seven Architectural Definitions


Reel #061

Business and Finance / Air Conditioning in Arizona


Reel #062

Reading of Paper on International Style


Reel #063

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


Reel #064

Talk with Dale Nichols


Reel #065

International Style, Reading Paper


Reel #066

Sea Shells, Housing, Science, Discovery


Reel #067

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


Reel #068

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


Reel #069

Decentralization - Freedom / Philosophy the Architectural Problem


Reel #070

The American Village - Structural Study


Reel #071

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


Reel #072

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


Reel #074

Unesco


Reel #075

Building Codes


Reel #076

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


Reel #077

Responsibility in Fellowship Life - N.Y. Trip


Reel #078

Destruction of the Box


Reel #079

Proportion and Principle


Reel #080

Building New York Exhibition Pavilion


Reel #081

The Creative Act


Reel #082

The American Town


Reel #083

Exhibition House in New York City


Reel #084

On Lewis Mumford Article


Reel #085

Discussion with Dr. Hanna on Philippines


Reel #086

On Lewis Mumford Article


Reel #087

Origin of Red Square, Anarchy, and Being "Awake


Reel #088

Greek Architecture


Reel #089

Criticism, Bartlesville


Reel #091

The Critical Spirit


Reel #092

Reading of the Charles Lindbergh Article


Reel #093

Furniture Design For Industry


Reel #094

Giving a meaning to "The Fellowship


Reel #095

Fundamentals of Line & Plane


Reel #096

Questions about House Construction


Reel #097

Re-Recording of Ben Raeburn's Questions


Reel #098

Japan and the Imperial Hotel


Reel #099

End of the Season Talk


Reel #100

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


Reel #101

The Japanese Print, Froebel & Their Influence


Reel #102

Usonian Automatic


Reel #103

Architectural Profession; Add Tired To Tired; Plaza


Reel #104

Taliesin and what it means - the Apprentice


Reel #105

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


Reel #106

Broadacre City


Reel #107

The Profession


Reel #108

The Seasons Of Civilization


Reel #109

Dante and the Renaissance


Reel #110

Usonian Automatic / Plant Trees / Poet / Architect / Mystical


Reel #111

Arizona Discussion with Eduardo Torroja


Reel #112

Canada and the United States One?


Reel #113

Architecture and Life in the Desert


Reel #114

Geology as Architecture


Reel #115

The One-Room House


Reel #116

Proportion


Reel #117

Questions and Answers


Reel #118

Democracy, Aristocracy and the Fellowship


Reel #119

The Vanishing Craftsman


Reel #120

The Usonian Automatic House


Reel #121

Questions and Answers, part I


Reel #122

The Great Tradition (Cornet Magazine questions)


Reel #123

The City


Reel #124

Questions and Answers, part II


Reel #125

Questions and Answers, part III


Reel #126

The Nature of a Rose


Reel #127

Principle of Growth


Reel #128

Talk to the American Institute of Architects


Reel #129

Talk with Dr. Neufert


Reel #130

Girls Colleges / Magazines / New Canaan


Reel #131

Architects & Engineers


Reel #132

Air Force Academy Interview in Washington


Reel #134

Weeding, Cultivation, Beauty, Moraltiy, Ethics


Reel #135

To the Fellowship


Reel #136

Architect-Engineer


Reel #137

Age of Elegance


Reel #138

Address At The Unitarian Church, Madison, Wi


Reel #139

Environment / Taste Built Civilization


Reel #140

Architect and Architecture


Reel #141

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


Reel #142

Organic Architecture / Abstraction / Materials


Reel #143

The Volunteer


Reel #144

Untitled


Reel #145

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


Reel #146

Decline of Architecture


Reel #147

Landscape; Observation; Jensen; Masieri; Giotto


Reel #148

Urbanism


Reel #149

Talk With Paul Hanna


Reel #150

Talk with Carmen Jones


Reel #151

Architecture


Reel #152

A Reading of William Blake


Reel #153

Japanese Culture


Reel #154

Form Follows Function - Study of Nature of Nature


Reel #155

Common Man


Reel #156

Free Form


Reel #157

A Reading of Victor Hugo


Reel #158

Tokyo, Vlasov and Bruker Lanse


Reel #159

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


Reel #160

Organic Architecture


Reel #161

Value of Architectural License


Reel #162

Professionalism


Reel #163

Untitled


Reel #164

Trip to Wales


Reel #165

Common Man - "Forbidden Planet


Reel #166

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


Reel #168

Mile High Building and Exhibition in Chicago


Reel #169

The American Home and the Common Man


Reel #170

Pre-Fab House (Erdman) And The Mile High


Reel #171

Erdman House - choice of name


Reel #172

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


Reel #173

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


Reel #174

Education / Definition of a Genius


Reel #175

Urban Planning / Fellowship Drawings / New Education


Reel #176

Education and the Categorical Imperative


Reel #177

Proportion / Froebel / Education / University / SRG Museum


Reel #178

Broadacre City


Reel #179

The Common Man, Taliesin, Education


Reel #180

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


Reel #181

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


Reel #182

Designing a Capitol for Arizona


Reel #183

Value of Working with Materials


Reel #184

The Master Poet


Reel #185

Journalism / Professionalism in Architecture / American Institute of Architecture


Reel #186

The Last Renaissance for Humanity


Reel #187

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


Reel #188

Trip to Sumeria and Baghdad


Reel #189

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


Reel #190

Mediocrity and Education


Reel #191

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


Reel #192

Steel and Wood in Architecture


Reel #193

Philology: Sensationalism and Quality


Reel #194

Marin County


Reel #195

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


Reel #196

City Planning


Reel #196?

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


Reel #197

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


Reel #198

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


Reel #199

Democracy and Education / Reality and the Common Man


Reel #200

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


Reel #201

Contemporary English Architecture / (Discussion with Colonel Henson)


Reel #202

Japanese Print Party


Reel #203

Arrangements & Dress


Reel #204

Spirit of Work


Reel #205

The City & the Future


Reel #206

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


Reel #207

Materials & Technology


Reel #208

Speaks To The Fellowship


Reel #209

Mr. Wright and Mr. Evjue Discuss Films & TV


Reel #210

Presentation of Marin County Drawings


Reel #211

Politics, Profit System, Corporations


Reel #212

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


Reel #213

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


Reel #214

Nature and God


Reel #215

O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)


Reel #216

Monona Terrace


Reel #217

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


Reel #218

On the Job


Reel #219

Ethics of Building


Reel #220

Architectural Forum article by Peter Blake


Reel #221

Appearance, Dress, Trip to Washington, Carl Sandburg


Reel #223

Mr. and Mrs. Wright


Reel #224

Nature of Materials


Reel #225

Organic Sense Of Proportion


Reel #226

Use of Materials


Reel #227

Thought-Built Buildings


Reel #228

Sumeria and Religion


Reel #229

Sycophants


Reel #230

Russian Culture and Modern Art


Reel #231

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


Reel #232

Nature as Body of God


Reel #233

Conversation with Stuart Weiner


Reel #234

Conversation with Cranston Jones


Reel #235

Architectural History


Reel #236

Origins of Architecture


Reel #237

The Swan


Reel #238

Untitled


Reel #239

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


Reel #240

Talk to the Citizen's League of Minneapolis


Reel #241

Lecture given to the School of Architecture, University of Oklahoma


Reel #243

The Creative Mind Broadcast, WGBH-FM


Reel #245

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


Reel #246

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


Reel #248

Architecture and Culture


Reel #249

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


Reel #250

Talk with Buckminister Fuller


Reel #251

Talk to the University of California


Reel #252

Capitol for State of Arizona Talk to Phoenix Union High School


Reel #258

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


Reel #259

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


Reel #262; Reel #263; Reel #264; Reel #265

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


Reel #264

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


Reel #271

Compilation of talks to the Taliesin Fellowship for CBS/ Kronkite


Reel #272

Compilation of talks to the Taliesin Fellowship for the BBC


Reel #274

Plaza Interview with Jeffrey Ellis Aronin


Reel #277

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


Reel #281

Development of the Individual, True Apprenticeship


Reel #282

English Language, Education, Greek Culture


Reel #283

Teacher, Inspiration Both Ways, Faith, Spirit


Reel #284

Untitled


Reel #285

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


Reel #287

Heritage-Henredon Meeting : Frank Lloyd Wright Talk


Reel #n/a

Untitled


Item 7111.065 Interview with Wright about the Air Force Academy design and International Style, 1951-01-04

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


Item 7111.066 Talk on New Theater commission and zoning issues in West Hartford, Connecticut, 1950-12-17

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