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Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, and over a thousand other structures that redefined American architecture. He also abandoned his family, saw his mistress and her children murdered by an axe-wielding servant, and spent decades outrunning creditors while living like an aristocrat on borrowed money.

This episode traces Wright from his Wisconsin childhood through his revolutionary Prairie houses, the Taliesin massacre, and the arrogance that made him both insufferable and irreplaceable.

• He designed over 1,000 structures across seven decades, with more than 500 built
• Seven people including his mistress were murdered at Taliesin by a deranged servant in 1914
• Fallingwater, built over a waterfall in 1935, is considered one of the greatest houses ever designed
• He completed the design for the Guggenheim Museum but died six months before it opened