Frank Lloyd Wright – Murder, Myth And Modernism
A documentary exploring Frank Lloyd Wright's visionary architectural works and relating the story of his turbulent personal life
The American icon behind the Guggenheim museum, Fallingwater and his own home, Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright became the greatest architect of the 20th century – not only because of his magnificent talent but because he was a master showman and self-publicist.
The sheer scale of Lloyd Wright’s career – over 450 buildings in 70 years – is astonishing in itself but there is much more to his story than the romantic myth his autobiography revealed.
This new documentary, accompanying the BBC TWO series Marvels Of The Modern Age, explores Lloyd Wright’s visionary works and reveals how his life was beset with periods of devastating critical derision, financial chaos, scandal, and a violent but little-known murder.
A World of Wonder production.
