The Sunday Times

The AAI awards have been scooped by cube-shaped minimalist affairs, which just goes to show that Frank Lloyd Wright's principles are alive and thriving among a new generation of architects in Ireland. Those closest to the original school of modernism — the Taliesin West academy founded by Frank Lloyd Wright in Arizona in the 1930s — don't seem to sense the irony. The world-famous college is close to broke, its landmark buildings are crumbling and its critics say the modernist movement itself is in need of an upgrade. They accuse the orthodox modernists of not being, er, modern enough. Modernism, which emerged during the first world war, has been defined as the deliberate pursuit of new and modern methods in architecture. As the debate rages between the older and the emerging schools of design, one American newpaper has defined the battle as The Roundheads v the Cavaliers.