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November 29, 2016 By Sarah Goldhagen

Frank Lloyd Wright Was a Genius at Building Houses, But His Ideas for Cities Were Terrible

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The New Republic

Most educated Americans can recite the names of at least a few of the principal figures of twentieth-century art—Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Jackson Pollock, maybe Jasper Johns—but ask about the architects of the same era and the only name you are almost guaranteed to hear is Frank Lloyd Wright.
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