TROPOLISM

Sorry for being so late on props to Marion Mahony. A century plus late. The first woman to obtain an architect's license in Illinois was also the talent behind the groundbreaking rendering style of the Frank Lloyd Wright's 1910 Wasmuth Portfolio. The portfolio all architecture students learn about, the one that influenced spatial ideas in Bauhaus modernism by its use of Japanese representational and, well, spatial ideas. It wasn't FLW, it was MM.

Being a woman, Mahony could not even get her memoir published before she died. Manuscripts are available in Chicago and New York, but it is now online, and in a groundbreaking way: a manuscript that is published and formatted for web viewing. Take that, FLW!