RT,
Apologies for butting in but your comment begs a different question: is there a linkage between design and writing abilities, like that between music and math in the brain? The process of writing is a fascinating one and I can see connections!
For example, both in a sense involve narratives, a progression if you will through time and space that intend to affect the person upon whom this progression is acted (ugh, how's that for poor writing!).
Also, both seem to demand a highly analytical skill. For example, routing a course may be like structuring a story or line of reasoning. Both seem to demand a spacial reasoning capability as well as logical reasoning. Yes!
In addition to that analytical side, both demand creativity skills, in that within structure there is room for many "forms." (Think bunker placement vs the form that bunker takes, and in writing the reality that the best lies not necessarily in the originality of the story structure but in the telling of the story and in the writing style.) yes yes!
Certainly gropius, corbu, and Wright could write, in golf what about Doak, Steel?
i wonder if the same regions of the brain are called on in the processing of these two skills...is there a neurologist in the house?
Man, someone ought to write a story on this...
Sorry, back to regularly scheduled programming.