Hengchun Peninsula, the southernmost tip of Taiwan, and the isolated tropical scenery of Kenting, where Taiwan's first national park was proclaimed in 1984, were the next stops after the free games metaphorical and physical highs of the island's green north and towering central highlands. Only an hour later, we landed in Kaoxiong, Taiwan's largest port city, to be greeted by a completely...

As Wright had planned, the two of us could hear the bubbling of the stream as we made our way up the winding, tree-lined road before we ever caught sight of the home itself. When the property was finished in 1937, this gradual unveiling is precisely what his customer, retail mogul Edgar J. Kaufmann, would have witnessed.At the end of the lengthy road, the structure appeared, and even to a...