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Show SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, MARRIOTT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Taylor A. Woolley, Utah Architect and Draftsman to Frank Lloyd Wright By PETER L. GOSS Taylor Woolley outside the Villino Belvedere, Fiesole, Italy, 1910.Taylor Woolley left Salt Lake City in 1908 and headed to Chicago hoping to find work in one of the city’s major architectural offices. The following year he found work in Frank Lloyd Wright’s office. After closing his Chicago office Wright traveled to Europe to prepare a portfolio of his work for a German publisher. He invited his draftsman, Taylor Woolley, and his oldest son, Lloyd Wright, to assist him. Woolley is standing outside the Villino Belvedere in which he and Lloyd Wright worked on the drawings for the famous “Wasmuth” Portfolio. Peter L. Goss is professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Utah and a Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society. 149 |
