Channeling Frank Lloyd Wright LAKELAND (WUSF) - No place else has as many works by Frank Lloyd Wright in one location. That thought was foremost in the mind of Robert Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture, as he designed two huge dormitories at Florida Southern College in Lakeland.

Stern says he tried to channel his inner Wright in the design, which swoops down from the hillside campus to Lake Hollingsworth.

"The danger is copying Wright - well you can't copy Wright, but to try to imagine what he wanted," says Stern. "The most important thing, I think, that we've accomplished is to make a building that extends the geometry of this campus, which was kind of incomplete at the top of the hill, down toward the greatest visual asset of the college, the lakefront."

The dedication of the second dormitory included tours of four-story Nicholas Hall, which includes geometric patterns - such as a diamond-shaped staircase - that echoes Wright. © Copyright 2012, WUSF