. >> today it is the home of frank lloyd wright school of architecture and the frank lloyd wright foundation. and the property itself, it's a work of art. >> wright built to the human scale. everything in the desert is low. the trees are low. um, so his buildings are low. he also uses the low ceilings to kinda push you through spaces, right, at an entrance, drop the entry real low. and that helps push you into the space. it's a little technique he called compression and release. we call this the garden room because you sit on the bench here, and it frames the view of the mountains, uh, in the distance. it captures the garden. he uses a japanese technique called the borrowed landscape. >> he lived the way he believed. and he designed the way he felt things should look. >> it almost like a seamless transition between outdoor and indoor. >> even if you didn't know what he did, it was -- from when i was a kid, frank lloyd wright, you knew this guy was an icon. and why did he become such an icon? >> well, you know, i think he was a bigger-than-life personality. he really wanted to revolutionize t