Hervé Baley was trained in the open workshops at the Beaux-Arts School in Paris in the 1950s, and has always approached architecture as a form of art. While a student, he visited the exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright held in Paris in the spring of 1952, and that day changed his life. This left a decisive impact on the French architect, and he realized that he preferred the approach of Wright over that of Le Corbusier-the hero of his peers. The influence of Wright would follow him through his entire career. Like the American icon, Baley was interested in the concept of gesamtkunstwerk: creating homes to be complete works of art where the architecture, interiors, and furniture are integrated together into poetic ensembles. He taught this architectural vision as a professor at the Special School of Architecture. Those who attended his workshop, called “Sens and Space,” learned to create architecture as a full experience.