ERIC LLOYD WRIGHT
We understand that Frank Lloyd Wright’s mother taught him to play with Froebel blocks when he was young; how did that help him better understand the concept of structure?

Illustration of Froebel blocks

That was one of the great things of the Froebel system; to have you, as a child, look at the structure of all the plans, and buildings and things. And that's what you were doing with the blocks: you were setting up abstractions; and the abstractions would get to the base of that structure.

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