In North America, Frank Lloyd Wright is considered an architectural deity. On the other side of the Atlantic, however, a fight over the famed architect’s work has divided a peaceful British village.
On one side of the dispute is the very determined Hugh Pratt, a high-voltage electrical engineer and lifelong Wright admirer who has spent more than a decade and an estimated $150,000 trying to build one of the late architect’s original works in Wraxall, a small Somerset village around 130 miles west of London.