NP: Any favorite Frank Lloyd Wright books?

[Steven Koteff]

He lives in a house in the suburbs owned by the people who own this
tutoring center (i.e. a house owned by the tutoring center). His parents
live in Korea. His waking life is devoted almost entirely to school work
and he has very little agency in deciding what sorts of books, culture, or
ideas he consumes. As such, he has a very disciplined mind--much more so
than my own. I get the sense his interest in architecture has to do with
the field itself but also with a somewhat artistic impulse, which he
believes can find expression in too few fields that also overlap with any
field's his parents endorse (which are, basically, finance and
engineering).

As such, I don't just want to give him instruction in the field (though the
Barth quote, Mark, is wise, and heeded). I want to do so in a way that
helps him begin to grasp that it is a route by which humans have done
things beyond merely pleasing their parents. I want him to see it as an
art, and a sacred one (though obviously technical knowledge opens some of
those gates). Wright seems a good if obvious place to start. Plus I'm
writing something about Oak Park, IL, and want to know more myself.

Did I say Rice? I meant Wright, yes.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:55 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rice?  Do you mean Wright?
>
> 15 years is plenty old enough to be able to comprehend a lot.  If he says
> he wants to be an architect, I would be very surprised if he hadn't already
> exposed himself to FLW, unless he just emerged from under a rock.
>
> David Morris
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I should have given a bit more context. He has probably read very little
>> about Rice or architecture in general. I'm on my way to tutor him at the
>> moment but afterwords I will give a bit more information, including about
>> the tutoring center itself, which has a lot of very strange, almost
>> storybook elements.
>>
>> On Jan 20, 2016, at 4:14 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.pbs.org/show/frank-lloyd-wright/
>>
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Frank-Lloyd-Wright/dp/0691027455/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am tutoring a 15-year old kid from Korea who wants to be an architect.
>>> I thought it'd be good to get a book on FLW we could read together. Anybody
>>> have any recs? As ever, perfect angle gives me info about his life, genuine
>>> insight into his creative life and work, so forth. Good photographs a plus.
>>>
>>> Not tutoring him in architecture or anything technical. More about
>>> writing and communication.
>>>
>>> I know there are a million books on FLW, hence my asking.
>>>
>>> Also, one of my favorite jokes from *Mad Men* is Roger telling Don
>>> about how he (Roger) like to embarrass his (second) wife in front of her
>>> pretentious friends by calling the architect Frank Lloyd Rice.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>
>>
>
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