The Wriqht Stuff

摘要

The numbers alone are daunting: 55,000 architec­tural drawings, some 300,000 sheets of corre­spondence, close to 125,000 photographs, 270 film reels, two dozen models. Those are just the largest categories in the Frank Lloyd Wright archive, amassed over a seven-decade career that yielded more than 500 buildings (some 400 still standing, hundreds of others never realized), not to mention furniture, stained glass, and textiles. With the architect's 150th birthday upon us-he was born June 8,1867, though he often fudged the date-a team and I have spent countless hours combing through the trove, which was transferred to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Columbia University five years ago. The result of our digging debuts on June 12 in the new exhibition "Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive."