When approached in 1938 by then college president Dr. Ludd Spivey about designing "a great education temple in Florida," Frank Lloyd Wright had already gained a reputation as the world's most imaginative architect.  His organic architecture joined the structures with the earth, in this case with rolling hills of orange groves.  His work did not dominate the land but worked in harmony with it.   Twelve structures were built with six left on the drawing board.  Florida Southern College, the "Child of the Sun" collection, is the largest-one-site-collection in the world.  Wright described the pattern of the West campus as "the cultural value of organic buildings well suited to time, purpose, and place."
 

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