Even Genius needs nurturing. Without his mother placing drawings of buildings on the walls of his room, or the gridded table of the Froebel system taught him by his aunts, along with the pinwheel configurations that gave birth to the Prairie school, and so many other elements that Wright absorbed, there would have been no greatest American architect.HERE IT IS, a book that de-myth-ifyes the practice of organic design as Frank Lloyd Wright developed it slowly but steadily from 1887 to 1959, learning as he designed. With each client bringing his or her needs, and the site dictating its own requirements, the reader is here guided to an understanding of what s/he must learn to understand Wright as never before, and therin to design like Wright. For it is in the design process that Wright reveals himself and this book provides stunning insights to the very workings of that process.Storrer has travelled some 80,000 miles in his researching Wright by visiting at least twice each Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home and interviewing Usonian clients and children of Prairie clients. At his annual birthday party, the master held in his hands a Milton Stricker drawing of the MacDowell mountains abstracted into the Taliesin West drafting room, and commented that “this is the beginning of architecture.” Storrer has edited and published Taliesin Fellow Milton Stricker’s Design Through Abstraction.With over a hundred thousand copies sold of his books about Frank Lloyd Wright and his architecture, Wrightians have learned bit by bit from Storrer what is now contained in full in this book. As one reader of an advance copy said, “I never quite knew Wright until I read this.”