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When the couple returned a year later
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America

When the couple returned a year later, it was to set up home together

When the couple returned a year later, it was to set up home together

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When the couple returned a year later,
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it was to set up home together.
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6 seconds
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18
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:45
Uploaded
Jul 01, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Wildflame Productions

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Movie Summary

Frank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest ever architect. But few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them, and the secrets of his radical Welsh background.
Wright knew they wouldn't be welcome in Oak Park, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:08
Wright knew they wouldn't be welcome in Oak Park,
It was in the one place that for him represented safety, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:09
It was in the one place that for him represented safety,
He even gave his new house - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:07
He even gave his new house
As Wright liked to point out, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:05
As Wright liked to point out,
It's been compared to an Italian villa - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:10
It's been compared to an Italian villa
But Taliesin is very much more besides. - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:04
But Taliesin is very much more besides.
More than any other building, it embodies Wright's ideal - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:09
More than any other building, it embodies Wright's idea...
He prepared to say that it was of the hill, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:11
He prepared to say that it was of the hill,
The way that he marries his buildings with the landscape - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:13
The way that he marries his buildings with the landscape
It's constant and it's green hills - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:05
It's constant and it's green hills
- Wright summed up the philosophy that lay behind Taliesin - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:08
- Wright summed up the philosophy that lay behind Taliesin
It's a memorable expression, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:07
It's a memorable expression,
Well, here he used local materials, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:07
Well, here he used local materials,
And what's more, the same materials - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:07
And what's more, the same materials
Windows are low and linear, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:12
Windows are low and linear,
(dramatic music) - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:16
(dramatic music)
What he meant was that the philosophy of the building, - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:13
What he meant was that the philosophy of the building,
In this case, a building that belongs to its hill - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:07
In this case, a building that belongs to its hill
Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:09
Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney
Around the building, he carved the Welsh symbol - Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America 00:09
Around the building, he carved the Welsh symbol