"Many architects have achieved great fame, but Frank Lloyd Wright remains as the supreme individualist. He began his long career at a time when America was at a youthful and formative stage of her development and was able to bring to his design ad inimitable, unique quality which is instantly recognizable and which has never quite been equalled. Towards the end of the 19th century modern technology began to emerge, with concrete that could be strengthened with steel rods, or cast or poured into moulds to produce curving shapes which would not previously have been possible. Frank Lloyd Wright, although he rejected the International Style adopted in Europe, largely went his own way, and went on to produce some of the most startling and innovative public buildings in the world. Great architecture should be the means by which people's work and lives are made more efficient and satisfying, and Wright can be said to have achieved this. His public buildings have has a wonderful effect on the communities they serve, giving character and prominence to each town in which they are locted. Not all the buildings are as monumental as the Marin Country Civic Center or the Guggenheim Museum, some are on a more human scale, a case in point being the Pettit Chapel in Belvidere, Illinois, which was built not only to commemorate the life of the father of a family, but to benefit the entire community in which he had lived." - Front flap.