A piece of history reclaimed in Iowa Aug 10, 2009
DES MOINES - Frank Lloyd Wright enthusiasts are claiming victory in their effort to restore the architect s last standing hotel, a northern Iowa landmark that has fallen apart over the past few decades. The Park Inn Hotel in Mason City, designed by Wright and completed in 1910, has been used as a hotel, apartments, and even a strip club. (Boston Globe)
Provine perseveres: 150 years of history Aug 8, 2009
" Mississippi's historic campus chapels tell a story about the state's history - from the former "Old Chapel" at the University of Mississippi that served as a hospital during the Civil War to Tougaloo College's Woodworth Chapel that was at the seat of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Provine Chapel was so special it attracted the attention of famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who once traveled to Clinton to take a look at it. "He said it was one of the finest pieces of antebellum... (The Clarion-Ledger)
Through the roof: Trees add drama to unique 1950s design Aug 7, 2009
"Neither liked what I was trying to do. They wanted all traditional designs, and I was greatly influenced by (the late architect) Frank Lloyd Wright, who really used his imagination. "I went to work with Jay Liddle's firm, and he was great ... Frank Lloyd Wright, who used trees in his designs, would find it fascinating. (The Clarion-Ledger)
For sale: House and Senate buildings Aug 6, 2009
It asked renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, a part-time Arizona resident, for his thoughts on what the Capitol should look like. He proposed a dramatic building, a low-rising concrete dome plated with copper. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Charles Gwathmey; famed N.Y. architect helped define Modernism movement; at 71 Aug 6, 2009
In New York, Gwathmey Siegel was perhaps most famous for its addition to Frank Lloyd Wright s design of the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue. The addition, completed in 1992, consists of a rectangular 10-story tower behind Wright s famous spiral. (Boston Globe)
Elizabeth Farrelly Jul 29, 2009
But Frank Lloyd Wright took it differently. What's with "living". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Architect works to save home Jul 29, 2009
The home was designed by William Drummond of Chicago, who was a draftsman and then an architect for famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright before going out on his own ... I thought this was kind of a relative, designed by one of Frank Lloyd Wright s associates. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Books about Frank Lloyd Wright Jul 27, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum ... The number of books on Frank Lloyd Wright by now must rival the number of buildings designed by the tempestuous architect during his 91-year life - biographies and tributes, analyses and novels, coffee-table volumes of voyeuristic heft ... But the story's more fun than that, as we see in an excellent volume produced by the museum itself, "The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
811 LEGO pieces to make Fallingwater Jul 25, 2009
99, the kit also includes a 100-plus-page spiral-bound book with assembly instructions as well as drawings, photographs and a history of the Fayette County house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1935 for Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann ... In working with the LEGO Group and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which licenses products based on Mr. Wright's work, Ms. Waggoner said she and her staff "wanted to make sure that it's a reasonable replication of the house and that we can be proud of it.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Sitting pretty: 100-mile stretch of Hwy. 60 named a scenic byway Jul 20, 2009
There are artisans in many of the communities, with Spring Green offering the history of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, American Players Theatre and shops and restaurants. It would be nice to see more people, said Todd Miller, who, along with his wife, purchased the Spring Green General Store in 1993. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
J. Shulman; photographer famed for his modern architectural works; 98 Jul 19, 2009
Over the years, other clients included Koenig, Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolf M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, Charles Eames, Raphael S. Soriano, John Lautner, Eero Saarinen, Albert Frey, and Harwell Harris. Mr. Shulman leaves a daughter and a grandson. (Boston Globe)
This Weekend in McKinney Jul 18, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright talk, Texas State Historian lecture, sales, and shows on the weekend calendar ... Frank Lloyd Wright Talk: Architect Corey W. Crawford discusses the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Modernist photographer Julius Shulman dies Jul 17, 2009
Over the years, other clients included Koenig, Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolf M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, Charles Eames, Raphael S. Soriano, John Lautner, Eero Saarinen, Albert Frey and Harwell Harris. Shulman is survived by a daughter and a grandson. (MSNBC -- News)
Fountain Hills hires Scottsdale firm to plan downtown Jul 12, 2009
He was joined by Vernon Swaback, the firm's founder and former apprentice to architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Swaback said Fountain Hills' downtown "hasn't happened yet." Planning a vision will create magnetism, he said. (AZCentral -- News)
The architecture of William Rawn Jul 5, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright was over 80 when he designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York. It takes years of experience to learn what works and what doesn t, to be ready for big projects. (Boston Globe)
Tough to be proud of D-Backs on 4th Jul 4, 2009
In October 2007, they were four victories from their second World Series berth in seven years, and General Manager Josh Byrnes was the hottest architect since Frank Lloyd Wright. Now they shame us. (AZCentral -- Sports)
Oak Park approves deal for downtown hotel Jul 3, 2009
Mr. Glazier says village officials first broached the idea of a hotel for the site with Sertus, and subsequent studies showed theres enough demand driven by nearby hospitals and colleges along with tourism related to architect Frank Lloyd Wright and author Ernest Hemingway. Financing the development will be a major challenge for Sertus given the frozen capital markets and the grim outlook for the hotel industry and new condo sales. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Phoenix home sold Jul 2, 2009
A Frank Lloyd Wright architectural masterpiece is being offered for sale at $15 million by the private foundation that has been restoring it ... Damaged Frank Lloyd Wright home put up for sale ... A badly damaged Frank Lloyd Wright landmark has been put up for sale by a foundation that is having trouble raising money and sees private ownership as the best way to save it. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Wright: Unknowable yet unforgettable Jun 30, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright has been dead for 50 years, and the wily little cuss is still impossible to pin down ... But recent novels - T.C. Boyle's "The Women" and Nancy Horan's "Loving Frank" - are fictionally filling in the gaps: pairing historical facts with literary license and dramatized scenes to illustrate the heart and life of Frank Lloyd Wright ... "He probably would have if I asked," Kimberly says, "But I think, at the time, that it just wasn't interesting. I was a young girl, a teenager, and... (AZCentral -- Home)
New name, same building Jun 27, 2009
From now on, the old hotel, designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, will be known as the Historic Park Inn Hotel. Ann McGregor, executive director of Wright on the Park Inc., said the name change was recently approved by Wright on the Park s board of directors to avoid copyright issues. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Commission Promises $1 Million Toward Wright Visitor Center (100) Jun 25, 2009
Published: Saturday, June 20, 2009 10:08 AM EDT A home once planned as affordable housing for teachers will cost residents $1 million, as Polk County Commissioners promised Wednesday to provide that amount toward the building of a $2 million Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home to serve as a visitors center for Florida Southern College ... There is a growing popularity for Frank Lloyd Wright, she said. (Bartow Polk County Democrat, FL)
Thompson releases another in series about post office art Jun 23, 2009
For example, the narrative for a Decatur Post Office mural depicting famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright notes that Wright designed three houses in Decatur as well as the Dana-Thomas House in Springfield. Thompson said she is particularly fond of the Loading the Packet mural at the Chester Post Office that depicts a Mississippi riverboat being loaded with bags of flour milled in the Chester area. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Historic preservation: What's worth saving? Jun 21, 2009
Known for its trademark terra cotta architecture, the Williges was designed in 1930 by William Steele in the Prairie School of Design, a style developed the turn of the 20th century by a group of Chicago architects that included Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Steele's masterpiece is the Woodbury County Courthouse, located just across an alley from Williges. (Sioux City Journal)
In preservation bid, Wright's Ennis House for sale for $15m Jun 20, 2009
LOS ANGELES - Frank Lloyd Wright s Ennis House, a hilltop masterpiece that has been threatened by man and Mother Nature, is being offered for sale at $15 million by the private foundation that has been restoring it. Eric Lloyd Wright, the architect s grandson and a member of the nonprofit Ennis House Foundation s board, said that, given economic realities, private ownership would be the best way to save the house and honor his grandfather s intentions. (Boston Globe)
Blade Runner house goes on sale Jun 20, 2009
US architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis mansion, used as a backdrop for films including Blade Runner, has been put on the market for $15m (9 ... FROM OTHER NEWS SITES In preservation bid, Wright's Ennis House for sale for $15m - 1 hr ago Frank Lloyd Wright Ennis House is for sale - 10 hrs ago * US-ENTERTAINMENT Summary - 15 hrs ago $15M for Frank Lloyd Wright fixer-upper - 16 hrs ago Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Ennis House to be sold - 24 hrs ago * Requires registration. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
* Digging into the City by the Bay Jun 18, 2009
Just behind Britex Fabrics lies Maiden Lane, a pedestrian thoroughfare filled with upscale boutiques that is also home to the only building designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in San Francisco at No. 140, now occupied by Xanadu Gallery, which sells Asian and African art. The sweeping, circular interior was a predecessor to Wrights design for the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
USF picks renowned architect for new building Jun 18, 2009
Almost 70 years ago, legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright made his mark on Lakeland with the Annie Pfieffer Chapel, the first of 10 structures he designed for Florida Southern College and a recent addition to the World Heritage List. With today s announcement, the once-sleepy orange grove town now at the center of Florida s High Tech Corridor will again be home to internationally acclaimed architecture. (Lake Wales News, FL)
Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West May 29, 2009
When Frank Lloyd Wright first selected the site as winter home for his Fellowship in 1937, it was bold, expansive and raw, and as his wife described it, strewn with rocks, and gutted by deep, dry washes ... Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright s Encounter with the Arizona Desert (Taliesin West, Scottsdale Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Winter, 2005), 5-7 ... Kathryn Smith, Frank Lloyd Wright s Taliesin and Taliesin West (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997), 88. (Suite101.com)
Museum Mile Festival 2009 in New Yo... May 29, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (May 15-August 23) celebrates the 50th anniversary with more than 200 drawings, elevations, models and digital recreations of 64 projects designed by the Guggenheim's architect. Neue Galerie (86 Street). (Suite101.com)
Wright exhibit lacks agenda May 24, 2009
The great architect Frank Lloyd Wright was hyper-sensitive to the nature of place, as two houses he built for himself, one in Wisconsin (left) and one in Arizona, illustrate ... (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (Left), The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation) By Globe Correspondent / May 24, 2009 ... NEW YORK - There's a major new show here at the Guggenheim Museum on the work of America's greatest architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. (Boston Globe)
A look at the hub of early moderns May 24, 2009
But early modernism here also drew from Frank Lloyd Wright and modern movements in Europe - thus appropriating the broader term "International Style." Whatever you called it, H.H. Richardson it was not. One of the finest examples of Bauhaus in the area is the Gibbs House at 6 Chilton Street in Brookline, amid rows of Tudor revivalist brick homes. (Boston Globe)
Spiralling Upward May 18, 2009
Celebrating fifty years of Frank Lloyd Wright s Guggenheim ... Staff at the Guggenheim like to refer to the building as the most important object in the museum s collection, which makes it odd that the Guggenheim hasn t had a major exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright s work until now ... Among other things, the exhibition confirms the emergence of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which co-organized it, from the shadow of Wright s widow, Olgivanna. (New Yorker)
Small but sensible, it's Mod.Fab May 15, 2009
That was the challenge issued more than a year ago to students at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture at Taliesin West. They've earned kudos for the angular one-story, one-bath dwelling erected on the edge of the 500-acre Scottsdale campus of Taliesin West, which was built in 1937 by the legendary architect as the Western extension of his Wisconsin studio. (AZCentral -- Home)
Another Side of Richard Neutra May 10, 2009
He moved from the Midwest to Los Angeles to work with Frank Lloyd Wright on Barnsdall Park in Los Feliz. In Los Angeles, Neutra partnered, and for a while lived with, another Austrian-born architect, Rudolph Schindler. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Backward thinking May 5, 2009
The wonderful T.C. Boyle just published "The Women," about the love interests in the life of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. You know in which direction I am going with this. (Boston Globe)
NYC's Guggenheim celebrates Frank Lloyd Wright May 5, 2009
NEW YORK For Frank Lloyd Wright, the slow rise of the spiral ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum allowed paintings to be displayed as if on an artist's easel ... This spring, the museum is paying homage to its visionary 20th-century architect with a special exhibition titled "Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward." ... Co-curated jointly with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz. (Yahoo News)
America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places May 3, 2009
This 1908 masterpiece by architect Frank Lloyd Wright needs rescue from severe water damage. ROBERT CAMPBELL. (Boston Globe)
Ames Shovel Shops makes 'Most Endangered Historic Places' list May 3, 2009
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Park Inn tally now at $16 million Apr 15, 2009
The building is the last remaining hotel designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. User Comments - 2 comment(s). (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Read more about Taliesin Apr 11, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright s Taliesin home a showcase, lab ... Thousands come each year to the Wisconsin River valley where Frank Lloyd Wright built his home and tested his ideas about building in harmony with nature ... With Taliesin, architect Frank Lloyd Wright tested his ideas about building in harmony with nature. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Click for Full Story Apr 9, 2009
In 1959, American architect Frank Lloyd Wright died in Phoenix, Ariz ... Thought for Today: "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change." -- Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (1867-1959). (KWTX.com, TX)
Frank Lloyd Wright's family home Mar 26, 2009
Of the hundreds of homes Frank Lloyd Wright designed, just two were for his children ... The house is an important piece of the Frank Lloyd Wright oeuvre, spiraling up like the Guggenheim to let breezes through, lifting the living room above a canopy of citrus trees that Frank called the lawn ... They sigh over the dining-room table and Frank Lloyd Wright-designed chairs, which convey to the next owner. (AZCentral -- Home)
Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in Lakeland, Fla. Mar 24, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright s work refurbished at Florida Southern ... Florida Southern College is restoring this chapel and 11 other of its famed Frank Lloyd Wright buildings ... The Annie Pfeiffer Chapel, on the left, and smaller William H. Danforth Chapel, are among the dozen Frank Lloyd Wright-designed structures on the Florida Southern College Campus. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Growing up with Wright legacy Mar 20, 2009
The story behind Frank Lloyd Wright's family home ... The story behind Frank Lloyd Wright's family home ... Of the hundreds of homes Frank Lloyd Wright designed, just two were for his children. (AZCentral -- Home)
* [HARDCOVER: US] The novel life of Americas greatest architect Mar 15, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright, creator of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and pioneer of organic buildings, is now regarded as Americas greatest architect ... There is much, then, in Frank Lloyd Wrights tumultuous life that almost defies fictionalization ... Then again, this is a writer who lives in a house Frank Lloyd Wright built. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
All jokes aside, engineers are practically creative Mar 12, 2009
You work for Frank Lloyd Wright, he's going to be credited with the lovely window detail you devised for Mrs Heurtley's house in Oak Park. John Bilmon, director of PTW, has never been known as a designer. (The Age, Australia -- Opinion)
Rare Chance To Buy Wright House Mar 9, 2009
A rare chance to buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Article:A rare chance to buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house:/c/a/2009/03/07/RE0U167P7D.DTL Article:A rare chance to buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house:/c/a/2009/03/07/RE0U167P7D.DTL ... A rare chance to buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
A rare chance to buy a Frank Lloyd Wright house Mar 9, 2009
But past the cattle feedlot and leaning hay barn, deep in a field where winter wheat and cantaloupe mark the seasons, sits a ranch house designed by an aging Frank Lloyd Wright ... "He softened the whole effect of the place on that barren center of a valley by using the 120-degree angles," said William Storrer, author of "The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion." "It just seemed to be right for the space." ... "Every aspect of the design of the house fits within the architectural language that Frank... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Board of Trustees Announces Executive Management, Board Changes Mar 7, 2009
Strengthens Organization's Ongoing Initiatives to Address Issues of Built Environment, Perpetuate Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Design Legacy ... March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of trustees of The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced today that Philip D. Allsopp, president and chief executive officer for the past three years, will resign his position effective June 30, 2009 ... Allsopp will remain at the Foundation for the next four months to assist with the transition to Maley and to help... (PR Newswire)
Chair design in Melbourne Mar 5, 2009
Before us was a permanent collection of 20th century iconic chairs, signifying the tidal wave of modernism: from Otto Wagner to Frank Lloyd Wright; Marcel Breur to Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe; Charles and Ray Eames to Giancarlo Piretti ... 1902-06: Otto Wagners armchair, Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna; Frank Lloyd Wrights office chair, Larkin company administration building, Buffalo, New York Not particularly iconoclastic labels, but they heralded a revolution in perception ... The... (India Times)
Intriguing showpieces in 'New American Home' Mar 2, 2009
As environmentally friendly as the house might be, though, it is impossible not to focus on the architecture, which, with its abundant water features and over-the-top outdoor space, is mindful of Falling Water, the Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece near Pittsburgh. Officially, it's called "desert contemporary.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Toddlin’ Town Mar 2, 2009
In the mid-eighteen-nineties, Daniel Burnham, then the most prominent architect in Chicago, met with a young architect named Frank Lloyd Wright. Burnham had been impressed by Wright s talent but felt that he could use some seasoning. (New Yorker)
Home of the week Feb 28, 2009
Undeterred, the Hornes brought in the architect Gordon Adamson, who dispensed with tradition and redesigned the house in 1947 after the Frank Lloyd Wright style that emphasizes nature and simplicity. The house was an early conversion to a more open plan, with one room leading to another instead of opening onto a traditional hallway. (Globe and Mail)
On the trail of an egomaniac Feb 21, 2009
The plight of Frank Lloyd Wright's women raises questions about the cost of creativity ... Dr John Harvey Kellogg (inventor of Corn Flakes and an enema-administering machine), Alfred C. Kinsey (pioneer sex researcher) and the self-proclaimed "world's greatest architect", Frank Lloyd Wright, are all, as Boyle acknowledges, "these narcissistic egomaniacs who want to control their own regime and if you're not part of it, you don't exist". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Frank Lloyd Wright's Phoenix legacy Feb 21, 2009
Frank Lloyd Wright was the most famous American architect of the 20th century, as well as one of the world's legendary egos ... It is now home to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and offers tours (admission fees vary depending on tour) ... Details: 12621 N. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd., Scottsdale. (AZCentral -- Home)
The International Feb 21, 2009
Following the museum's extensive renovation and on the 50th anniversary of its 1959 opening, Guggenheim architect Frank Lloyd Wright is spinning in his grave. Or maybe dancing with glee, depending on how you think. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
• Brown Bag Lecture features architectural writer Feb 20, 2009
Henry Whiting II will speak on "Frank Lloyd Wright in Idaho" for the second installment in the Magic Valley Arts Council's 2009 Brown Bag Lecture Series, set for noon Feb. 27 at the Twin Falls Public Library ... Whiting has also written two books about the studio: "Teater's Knoll: Frank Lloyd Wright's Idaho Legacy" (Northwood Institute Press, 1987) and "At Nature's Edge: Frank Lloyd Wright's Artist Studio" (University of Utah Press, 2007), winner of the Idaho Library Association's Idaho Book of... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Darwin the Liberator How evolutionary thought undermined the ... Feb 14, 2009
T.C. Boyle's novel "The Women" imagines how Frank Lloyd Wright constructed his chaotic love life. . (Washington Post)
The 'Women' in Frank Lloyd Wright's life Feb 10, 2009
More 'Women' in Frank Lloyd Wright's fascinating life - USATODAY.com ... More 'Women' in Frank Lloyd Wright's fascinating life ... Frank Lloyd Wright's life and times are enough to fill hundreds of books, including T.C. Boyle's The Women, and Nancy Horan's surprise 2007 best seller Loving Frank. (USA Today -- Life)
