SOURCE: "Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture," in Kenyon Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter, 1942, pp. 7-28.

In the following essay, Goodman and Goodman summarize Wright's architectural thought and compare his concept of Organic Architecture with the International Style of Le Corbusier.

As is natural to a teacher and polemicist, a propagandist when he cannot build and a critic of what he has built,—and all this for forty-seven years!—the publications of Wright are voluminous, the more so since his larger conception of architecture as "organically" related to society and the cosmos leads him to talk of nearly everything. For the same reasons, however, these writings are so repetitious that it is possible in a brief essay to reduce them to a few headings and even to do justice to the main details: the polemicist hammers at the same points and this particular organic-philosopher soon comes home to his simple...