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Florida Southern featured in PBS show 'At Garden's Gate'
Show highlights architecture surrounding Frank Lloyd Wright designs

LAKELAND, Fla. (Sept. 19, 2001) — Florida Southern College, home to the worlds' largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, will be featured on the PBS show, "At Garden's Gate" airing at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22 on WEDU-TV Channel 3. The show's segment will discuss how Frank Lloyd Wright took the surrounding landscape into consideration when designing his buildings. The "At Garden's Gate" crew visited Florida Southern in February to shoot footage of the campus.

"Florida Southern wouldn't be Florida Southern without Frank Lloyd Wright architecture," said Florida Southern College Professor Emeritus Tom Mack, who walked the campus with Wright in the 1950s after Wright's work for the college was completed. The crew spoke with Mack and Florida Southern alumni Koby Kirwin, a landscape architect in Naples, Fla.

"We're thrilled to have Wright's architecture discussed from a different perspective, especially when we're gearing up for such a big Wright event here in Lakeland," said Lynn Dennis, director of Frank Lloyd Wright Programs at Florida Southern College. The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy will hold its annual conference in Lakeland, Fla. Oct. 31 through Nov. 4. Florida Southern College is hosting portions of the conference through a grant from the state of Florida.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

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