SOURCE: "The Fine Arts and Frank Lloyd Wright," in Four Great Makers of Modern Architecture, 1963, pp. 27-37.

In the following essay, Kaufmann explores Wright's relationship to modern art, highlighting the architect's desire that art be integrated with life.

Frank Lloyd Wright spent the last decade of his life blast ing away at (among other things) modern art; at the same time, he was engaged in a long and eventually successful campaign to build the Solomon Guggenheim Museum for modern art. On these grounds he is accused of designing the museum to show the superiority of his own art—architecture—over the arts of painting and sculpture. Now Wright dearly loved a fight and even more a paradox, but it would never have occurred to him to betray a professional trust. When he accepted any commission, it was not as a self-monumentalizer; else he would have aimed his whole...