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Frank Lloyd Wright

Pedro E. Guerrero, self-portrait, circa 1950s, New York City (ยฉ 2015 Pedro E. Guerrero Archives)
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A New Documentary Champions the Photographer Who Captured Wright, Calder, and Nevelson

by Benjamin Sutton September 17, 2015September 17, 2015

Photographers who shoot the work of famous artists are rarely celebrated in their own right, but a new documentary shifts the focus onto the man responsible for some of the most iconic images we have of Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, and Louise Nevelson.

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How a Set of Rediscovered 19th-Century Japanese Doors Leads to Frank Lloyd Wright

by Claire Voon August 31, 2015September 22, 2015

Last week, a trio of late-19th-century Japanese sliding door paintings, originally believed to be missing or destroyed, finally emerged after years spent hidden in a Chicago Park District storage facility.

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Frank Lloyd Wrightโ€™s Unity Temple Gets Crucial Restoration

by Laura C. Mallonee August 3, 2015August 5, 2015

The United States is really proud of Frank Lloyd Wright โ€” in February, it nominated 10 of the architectโ€™s buildings for inclusion on UNESCOโ€™s World Heritage List.

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The Mentor and His Protรฉgรฉ: Frank Lloyd Wright and Fay Jones in Arkansas

by Laura C. Mallonee March 19, 2015March 19, 2015

Fay Jones was still a boy in Arkansas when he first heard of Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Frank Lloyd Wrightโ€™s West Coast Experiment, Ramping Up to the Guggenheim

by Allison Meier February 25, 2015May 23, 2022

Before the quarter-mile ramp of New Yorkโ€™s Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright envisionedย a smaller slope on the West Coast.

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UK Planning Inspector Blocks โ€œUnexceptionalโ€ Frank Lloyd Wright House

by Laura C. Mallonee November 12, 2014November 12, 2014

The construction of the first Frank Lloyd Wright house in the UK has been officially derailed by planning officials who just canโ€™t see what all the fuss over Wright is about, Architectโ€™s Journal reported.

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Getty Foundation Announces New Grants to Conserve Modern Architecture

by Allison Meier September 19, 2014September 21, 2014

This week, the first awardees in the new Keeping It Modern grant initiative from the Getty Foundation were announced for 20th-century modernist architecture that requires long-term conservation planning.

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Frank Lloyd Wright House Among Americaโ€™s Most Endangered Places

by Allison Meier June 24, 2014

Yesterday the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its list of Americaโ€™s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for the year, an annual call for awareness that itโ€™s rallied for 27 years.

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Models of Frank Lloyd Wrightโ€™s Utopia Show the Architect as City Planner

by Allison Meier February 17, 2014August 31, 2021

Frank Lloyd Wright believed dense urban cities would never make it into the next century. He wrote that โ€œthe citizen of the near future preferring horizontality โ€” the gift of his motorcar, and telephonic or telegraphic inventions โ€” will turn and reject verticality as the body of any American city.โ€

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New Jersey Frank Lloyd Wright Home Is Relocating to Crystal Bridges in Arkansas

by Allison Meier January 16, 2014January 22, 2014

A New Jersey Frank Lloyd Wright house is relocating to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, through an acquisition announced this Wednesday.

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Unbuilt Museums

by Allison Meier August 16, 2013August 20, 2013

Some museums just arenโ€™t meant to be. For reasons of being too complicated, expensive, or just too out there to exist, many architectsโ€™ plans for museums have been unrealized.

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The Shocking Demolition of Frank Lloyd Wrightโ€™s Park Avenue Showroom

by Allison Meier April 16, 2013April 21, 2013

Itโ€™s shocking that a building designed by the biggest architect of the past century could disappear so quickly and quietly, but last month Frank Lloyd Wrightโ€™s auto showroom on Park Avenue was demolished and the architectural world is just now feeling the reverberations.

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