Architect Wright’s Widow Dies at 87
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Olgivanna Wright, the 87-year-old widow of pioneering architect Frank Lloyd Wright, died today after suffering a heart attack.
Mrs. Wright had been recovering from pneumonia brought on by flu, according to a spokesman at Taliesin West, the architectural training school founded by the Wrights.
Born in Montenegro, Yugoslavia, and educated in Russia, she came to the United States in 1924 and married Wright in 1928.
Together, the Wrights established the Taliesin Foundation in 1932. It was an experiment in education in which students learned architecture through building.
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