A recent internal review at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation -- a nonprofit that oversees an architecture school with Wright's name, the Wright archives and two landmark campuses: Taliesin in Wisconsin and Taliesin West in Arizona -- has caused what the organization's board chairman calls "a hornet's nest" of controversy between the old guard and the new guard.
The so-called "90-day study," authored by board chairman Vernon Swaback, a former Wright apprentice, recommends that authority over the organization change hands from the Taliesin Fellowship, whose members live and work on both campuses, to the board of directors, in part because the fellowship's core membership is aging. The fellowship has yet to approve the change.
