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.