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.
Frank Lloyd Wright
How a Set of Rediscovered 19th-Century Japanese Doors Leads to Frank Lloyd Wright
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.
Frank Lloyd Wrightโs Unity Temple Gets Crucial Restoration
The United States is really proud of Frank Lloyd Wright โ in February, it nominated 10 of the architectโs buildings for inclusion on UNESCOโs World Heritage List.
The Mentor and His Protรฉgรฉ: Frank Lloyd Wright and Fay Jones in Arkansas
Fay Jones was still a boy in Arkansas when he first heard of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wrightโs West Coast Experiment, Ramping Up to the Guggenheim
Before the quarter-mile ramp of New Yorkโs Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright envisionedย a smaller slope on the West Coast.
UK Planning Inspector Blocks โUnexceptionalโ Frank Lloyd Wright House
The construction of the first Frank Lloyd Wright house in the UK has been officially derailed by planning officials who just canโt see what all the fuss over Wright is about, Architectโs Journal reported.
Getty Foundation Announces New Grants to Conserve Modern Architecture
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.
Frank Lloyd Wright House Among Americaโs Most Endangered Places
Yesterday the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its list of Americaโs 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for the year, an annual call for awareness that itโs rallied for 27 years.
Models of Frank Lloyd Wrightโs Utopia Show the Architect as City Planner
Frank Lloyd Wright believed dense urban cities would never make it into the next century. He wrote that โthe 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
New Jersey Frank Lloyd Wright Home Is Relocating to Crystal Bridges in Arkansas
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.
Unbuilt Museums
Some museums just arenโt 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.
The Shocking Demolition of Frank Lloyd Wrightโs Park Avenue Showroom
Itโs shocking that a building designed by the biggest architect of the past century could disappear so quickly and quietly, but last month Frank Lloyd Wrightโs auto showroom on Park Avenue was demolished and the architectural world is just now feeling the reverberations.