Among the architects of his generation Wright was renowned not only for his exceptional talent as an architect but also for the prescience of his thought. Despite his penchant for the Wagnerian gesture he never lost his feeling for the reality of production, and notwithstanding his anti-establishment isolationism, he remained quintessentially modern and in this way totally committed to his image of America as the predestined apotheosis of European democracy in which man and nature would be symbiotically reconciled…[+]