List No. 116

FELLOWSHIP ASSETS

Frank Lloyd Wright

1943

In 1932, Frank Lloyd Wright, arguably the most accomplished architect of all time, opened the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (“Taliesin”) and welcomed 23 apprentices into his world. For the next 27 years until his death, Wright taught and lived with numerous sets of students, some of whom went on to work for his firm after graduating. To this day, Taliesin continues to take on apprentices. In his 1943 memoir, Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography, Wright listed a Taliesin fellow’s ideal qualities.

FELLOWSHIP ASSETS

I. AN HONEST EGO IN A HEALTHY BODY—GOOD CORRELATION

II. LOVE OF TRUTH AND NATURE

III. SINCERITY AND COURAGE

IV. ABILITY FOR ACTION

V. THE ESTHETIC SENSE

VI. APPRECIATION OF WORK AS IDEA AND IDEA AS WORK

VII. FERTILITY OF IMAGINATION

VIII. CAPACITY FOR FAITH AND REBELLION

IX. DISREGARD FOR COMMONPLACE (INORGANIC) ELEGANCE

X. INSTINCTIVE COOPERATION