How Frank Lloyd Wright resolved his inner struggles [Chicago Tribune] 

Long before Frank Lloyd Wright became a professional great man who costumed himself in a porkpie hat and a flowing cape, he signed his drawings “Frank L. Wright” and carried out such humble tasks as preparing drawings of buildings for real estate ads in the Chicago Tribune.

His mentor and lieber Meister, acclaimed architect Louis Sullivan, would scold Wright for using drafting tools to create a strongly geometric ornament. Sullivan preferred the spontaneous freehand sketch, the better to create ornament in which squares and circles would flow directly into an organic swirl of leaf forms.

“Make it live,” he would urge his young charge. (more)