SOURCE: "Frank Lloyd Wright's Peaceful Penetration of Europe," in The Rationalists, The Architectural Press Ltd, 1978, pp. 34-41.

In the following essay, originally published in 1939, Pevsner assesses Wright's influence on European architecture.

There lived near London an architect known to many for his adventurous early buildings and designs, his brilliant writings on the social movement of the arts and crafts, his Campden experiment in craftsmanship, husbandry and community life, and his charming personality, Mr C. R. Ashbee. He was about seventy-five, [C. R. Ashbee died in 1942.] and could claim amongst his other titles to fame that of having discovered Frank Lloyd Wright for Europe. They got to know each other when Mr Ashbee was staying in Chicago in 1900. Correspondence ensued, and when Wright came over to Europe in 1910 he visited Mr Ashbee at Campden. Some time before this journey, Professor Kuno Francke, a German professor in aesthetics at Harvard...