'MA': composition and reflex in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright

Wright's approach to design comprised a polarity of modes, ranging from axial symmetry, employed in public buildings, to free and spontaneous expression of use, route and place, in the private house. Together these showed a deep awareness of the Classical tradition, and personal study, unusual for his time, of oriental place-making. An idiosyncratic attitude to nature and existence lay behind this, often embodied in a ‘high place’.