Frank Lloyd Wright: DEFIANT GENIUS.

ARCHITECTS; WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 -- Homes & haunts; HISTORIC buildings; MONUMENTS; DOMESTIC architecture

The article focuses on the work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Owners of Wright houses can tell many stories involving men and women who behave as though inspecting a public monument. More acceptable persons, such as journalists, architects and historians, who telephone for appointments, also appear from time to time, but some dwellers in Wright houses have understandably adopted a policy of "Keep Out--This Means You." They feel that a house is still a castle even when it happens to be a work of art. Also, a minor annoyance comes from Wright's habit of scaling the width of passageways and the height of lintels to his own trim five-foot-eight-inch body, which causes persons of greater bulk to have some slight trouble in getting through. Moreover, the main rooms of Wright's houses, though commodious, occasionally have brought on a feeling of psychic pressure.