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William Wesley Peters (
June 12,
1912 -
July 17,
1991) was a noted architect and engineer, apprentice to and protegé of
Frank Lloyd Wright.
Born in
Terre Haute, Indiana, Peters was educated at
Evansville College (now the University of Evansville) and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then became Wright's first apprentice, joining the Taliesin Fellowship in 1932, and remained extremely loyal to the Wright organization throughout his entire career.
Among his accomplishments were assisting Wright in the construction of
Fallingwater and the
Johnson Wax administration building in
Racine. Peters was responsible for the structural designs of the
Guggenheim Museum and for the laboratory tower at Johnson Wax, among many other projects. Peters and
Taliesin Associates are credited with the design for the
Kaden Tower in
Louisville, Kentucky.
In 1935 he married Wright's adopted daughter, Svetlana (who died in an automobile accident in 1946, along with their son Daniel). Peters raised their other son, Brandoch, on his own. Peters was later briefly married to
Svetlana Alliluyeva, the youngest child and only daughter of
Joseph Stalin, in a bizarre marriage arranged by Wright's widow and Fellowship matriarch
Olgivanna Wright. They had a daughter, Olga.
Peters served as Chairman of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation from 1985 to 1991. He died in
Madison, Wisconsin.
Before he died, he gave in 1990 a remarkable Interview to Mr. Wolfgang v.Freeden from
Luebeck, Germany, about his life and work including his taking part in realising the "
Pearl Palace" in Teheran, Persia with the help of craftmanship of people in the "Murano, Venice, Italy"
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