Gertrude Kerbis, groundbreaking architect, dies at 89

Inspired by a Life magazine article about Frank Lloyd Wright, Gertrude Kerbis, then a student at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, hitchhiked to Wright’s Taliesin estate in Spring Green, Wis. Entranced by the rooms she was seeing as she peered through glass exterior walls, she crawled in a bathroom window and somehow managed to stay the night.By the time she awoke the next morning, she recalled in a short 2008 film about her life, “I had decided I was going to be an architect.”