Frank Lloyd Wright, Gurdjieff, Louis Sullivan, Ayn Rand?

Wright, Frank Lloyd (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959)

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.  He was a famous architect and author about  architecture and society.

He first encountered Gurdjieff was via his wife, Ogivanna. Olgivanna Hinzenberg, one of Gurdjieff's pupils from 1919 to 1924, married Wright. Gurdjieff and Wright first met in June of 1934 at Taliesin in southern Wisconsin. (1.)   Gurdjieff visited Taliesin in Wisconsin for 24 hours during his visit to Chicago in 1934.  (2.)   Gurdjieff and Wright met several times during the 30's and 40's. (4.)  Solita Solana wrote about Frank Lloyd Wright having dinner with Gurdjieff and his students prior to May 30, 1937.

Frank Lloyd Wright's role in the Work was that he supported his wife, Olgivanna in teaching the Work at Taliesin. (4.)  Frank and Olgivanna formed the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932. "It was a community that provided architectural training with a holistic, "learn by doing" approach that stressed appreciation of all the arts, ..." (5.)  Olgivanna continued the Taliesin Fellowship after Wright's death, up until her own death on March 1, 1985. (3. pg 15)

1. Gurdjieff International Review,

Gurdjeef at Taliesin

By Frank Lloyd Wright

This newspaper article [by Frank Lloyd Wright] was published in the Capitol Times (Madison, Wisconsin) on Sunday, August 26, 1934. 

http://www.gurdjieff.org/wright1.htm

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2. Gurdjieff International Review,

No Harem

Gurdjieff and the Women of The Rope

by Rob Baker

http://www.gurdjieff.org/rope.htm

Copyright © 1997 Rob Baker

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1. Frank Lloyd Wright: a biography By Meryle Secrest

ISBN: 9780226744148   Published May 1998 

University of Chicago Press

1. JSTOR: The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Winter, 1974-1975), pp. 126-139

http://www.jstor.org/pss/4634942

Organic Living:

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowhip

and Georgi Gurdjieff's Institute for the 

Harmonious Development of Man

1. http://www.taliesinpreservation.org/