Frank Lloyd Wright: The Phoenix Papers

About the Author\nK. Paul Zygas is an associate professor at ASU's School of Architecture, specializing in architectural theory and history. Previously, he was an associate professor at the University of Southern California from 1974 to 1984. A graduate of Harvard College, he received his M.Arch. from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Ph.D. in architectural history from Cornell University. He has conducted research in constructivist architecture and the Soviet architectural avant-garde. In the spring of 1990, he directed senior architecture students in the reconstruction of the Broadacre City model fashioned after the Frank Lloyd Wright original. He also coordinated the 1991 ASU symposium on Broadacre City.
Linda Nelson Johnson is an associate professor in the School of Design at Arizona State University where she has taught in the decorative arts and interior design programs since 1985. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the interior design program in the College of Design at Iowa State University. Johnson is an accomplished designer and fiber artist, whose works have been exhibited around the country and published in Palimpsest, Surface Design Journal, and Fiberarts Design Book III. An expert in historic ornamentation-particularly stencil designs and techniques-she is the co-author of Iowa Capitol: A Harvest of Design (1989), which was one of two publications nominated for the Benjamin Shambaugh Award in 1990. She has presented papers on stencil design and restoration, computer-aided design and its implications for design pedagogy, and historic ornamentation around the country, and has served on numerous juries. In 1991, Johnson coordinated "The Natural Pattern of Structure" symposium and exhibition at ASU and contributed and article to Designer's West about Frank Lloyd Wright and his integral use of pattern.