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Florida Southern College located in Lakeland, Florida, was a small, struggling college back in the early part of the 20th century. The college president at the time Dr. Ludd Spivey had a vision for a “great education temple” and invited Frank Lloyd Wright to design that vision. Dr. Spivey selected Mr. Wright because of a very inspiring autobiography that he had read about him plus his already establish reputation as one of the world’s most imaginative architects. Upon Wright’s arrival to the college campus, he quickly seized the opportunity because of his life-long interest in education and to forward his ideas onto an educational setting. At that point, Frank Lloyd Wright would begin on one of his greatest projects of career and the new campus would become home to the largest single site collection of his work in the world. Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect whose name goes synonymously with the development of American architecture in the early 1900’s. Born in Wisconsin in 1867, Wright lived on several estates with his family before eventually returning to his birth state to study at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He soon left college to work in Chicago with a well-known architectural firm. There Wright sh