Through over 400 objects, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive at the Museum of Modern Art considers the great American architect’s career from unexpected angles.
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Encountering a Frank Lloyd Wright House 1,200 Miles from Where It First Stood
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — On August 17, 1953, Gloria and Abraham Wilson sent a letter to one of the most famous architects in the United States. It began: “Dear Mr. Wright: Would you design a house for us?”
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A New Documentary Champions the Photographer Who Captured Wright, Calder, and Nevelson
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
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 Wright’s Unity Temple Gets Crucial Restoration
The United States is really proud of Frank Lloyd Wright — in February, it nominated 10 of the architect’s buildings for inclusion on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
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The Mentor and His Protégé: Frank Lloyd Wright and Fay Jones in Arkansas
Fay Jones was still a boy in Arkansas when he first heard of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s West Coast Experiment, Ramping Up to the Guggenheim
Before the quarter-mile ramp of New York’s Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned a smaller slope on the West Coast.
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UK Planning Inspector Blocks “Unexceptional” 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 can’t see what all the fuss over Wright is about, Architect’s Journal reported.
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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.
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Frank Lloyd Wright House Among America’s Most Endangered Places
Yesterday the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for the year, an annual call for awareness that it’s rallied for 27 years.
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Models of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 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 “the citizen of the near future preferring horizontality — the gift of his motorcar, and telephonic or telegraphic inventions — will turn and reject verticality as the body of any American city.”
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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.