Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings, Florida Southern College campus - Lakeland, FL
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Florida Southern College has the largest concentration of Frank Lloyd Wright designed structures anywhere in the world with ten buildings and two additional structures on campus - all of which are undergoing restoration.
Waymark Code: WMEEZT
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 05/19/2012
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"Wright felt most college campuses were architectural failures and wanted the opportunity to design an entire campus from scratch. Wright believed his concept of Organic Architecture would unite the individual structures with their environment and as a group enabling them to work together to create a whole better than the sum of its parts.
Ludd M. Spivey was FSC President from 1925 to 1957. In the midst of The Great Depression, Spivey envisioned a "college of tomorrow" as one part of a plan to build college enrollment which had been hit hard by The Depression. Spivey visited Wright at his Wisconsin home in 1936 and proposed that the world famous architect design the Methodist college campus. The two men's dreams came together with a handshake, and Wright began design immediately. In 1938 ground was broken for the first building.
Sixty-nine years old when he began his work at FSC, Frank Lloyd Wright was world renown and at the peak of his career. Many considered him then to be the greatest living American architect. The Johnson Wax Building and the famous Fallingwater house were recently completed, and Wright appeared on the cover of Time Magazine on January 17, 1938." (from (
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