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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Icons and Oddities from the Massive Frank Lloyd Wright Archive

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 30, 2017August 31, 2021

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

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 7, 2016January 7, 2016

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?”

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

Avatar photo 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 Wright’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 — 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

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 Wright’s West Coast Experiment, Ramping Up to the Guggenheim

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 25, 2015May 23, 2022

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

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 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

Avatar photo 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 America’s Most Endangered Places

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 24, 2014

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

Avatar photo 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 “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

Avatar photo 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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