Frank Lloyd Wright's sojourn as a Modernist in inter-war Europe

摘要

Everyone agrees that Frank Lloyd Wright occupies a unique place in the history of 20th-century American architecture, but not many would also know that it was a man named William Allin Storrer who confirmed it when he followed Ludwig von Koechel in devising a numbering system for his master's works. As a result, for the past 15 years, along with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 'K' numbers, we have had Wright's'S' numbers. The Storrer Index now lists more than 450 indi- vidual Duiiamgs ana projects undertaken by Wright between 1886 and 1959. Whether it will eventually supersede the older Taliesin Index remains to be seen. But it has already proved one thing: there is still vast academic mileage in Frank Lloyd Wright studies. America devours one hero after another, but American scholarship seeks the evidence of inspiration wherever it is found.