ABSTRACT
someone once described Frank Lloyd Wright as a “provincial genius”, as though genius could be qualified, and forgetting that geniuses are most often provincial, at any rate in their origins. In small countries they are drawn to the metropolis for economic reasons, especially if they are architects. But the United States has no metropolis in the Old World sense of the word, and a genius may alight, with equal propriety, in Wisconsin or Arizona, New York or Washington, D.C.
