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In Memoriam: Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1930–2017)

2017 ended on a sad note with news reaching us that Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice, archivist, and author, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, passed away on December 31.

As noted on the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation's Instagram page...

"Through his work as the steward of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, and as an author of more than 50 works about Wright and his architecture, Bruce was a sustaining force in ensuring that the legacy of Wright’s work and words are available to all of us, and to future generations.

Bruce joined the Taliesin Fellowship in 1949, where he worked as an apprentice until 1956 when he left to study at the École Nationale Superiéure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Following Wright’s death in 1959, Bruce became the director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, where he catalogued the collections of Wright’s drawings, manuscripts, letters, and other doc