Basically human work and design can be organic rather than artificial. The designs used in the building of the present day campus show his organic ideas at work quite well. .
The site of Florida Southern College is located on a large hillside lakefront and at the time when Wright paid his first visit it was settled in the middle of thousands of acres of citrus groves. In working with Dr. Spivey on an appropriate design for the new campus, they both agreed that the students of the college deserved something that hadn't been modeled before as school campus unlike the many European style universities of the time. As he toured the orange grove area he envisioned the buildings rising "out of the ground, into the light and towards the sun- (Florida). Wright would later call this project "the child of the sun- (Florida). His master plan called for 18 buildings using basic materials: steel for strength; sand because it was native to Florida; and glass to bring God's outdoors into man's indoors.
In May of 1938, the first phase of construction started with the Annie Pfeiffer chapel. The chapel would be the focal point of the campus with a vertical thrust. Soon after the chapel was finished three seminar units were built. Then ground breaking for the campus library followed the seminar buildings. A problem that the college president faced in turning his dream of a "great education temple- into reality was the costs of the project. One way he managed that was students were used to do a lot of the labor work by mixing concrete, making blocks and pouring the floor slabs and walkways. In return, the student's tuition was reduced or paid for their assistance in the construction of the buildings. The second phase of the project was the start of the Emile Watson-Benjamin Administration Building, then Ordway Arts Building and continuation of the covered walkways or esplanades between each of the buildings.