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.