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Image 31 of 33 from gallery of 8 Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings Given UNESCO World Heritage Status. Solomon R Guggenheim Museum. Image © David Heald (c) Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Fallingwater is Wright’s crowning achievement in organic architecture and the American Institute of Architects’ "best all-time work of American architecture.” Its owners, Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann, were a prominent Pittsburgh couple, reputed for their distinctive sense of style and taste.
You can book an overnight stay at six of these iconic homes.
“A breathtaking sweeping entry comprised of curved aggregate concrete, copper-accented balustrade and slanted skylights creates a complex, emotional realization of the experience of Wright’s uncommon design.” Photo 5 of 21 in A Standout Home by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Grandson Lists for $2.9M in La...
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Three unbuilt projects by Frank Lloyd Wright have been recreated in 3D renderings by Spanish architect David Romero. Images of the high-rise schemes, located in Chicago and Washington D.C., have been published in the latest edition of the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly, a hard-copy magazine of the...
Take a photo tour of the incredible Laurent House in Rockford Illinois - A Usonian home that Frank Lloyd Wright called his Little Gem.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, founded by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton, announced today it had acquired the Bachman Wilson House in Somerset County, N.J.
It seems that the most contemporary aspect of Wright’s work is his unique, manually recursive design process.
David Romero uses modeling software to show how the celebrated architect's unbuilt projects, like a mile-high tower in Chicago, might have turned out.
The legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright never wore his heart on his sleeve. For better or for worse, he dressed up his blueprints in his feelings, and nowhere is that reflex so painfully clear than in his handful of mysterious, pre-Colombian-inspired houses built in California in the early 1920s. You could call them “the…
Frank Lloyd Wright, Samuel-Novarro House, Los Angeles, California, 1920
Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith dreamed of living in a Frank Lloyd Wright house. Here’s how they made it happen on a modest teacher’s salary. By Susan Peck Photography by Brett Mountain If you keep on believing, the dream you wish will come true. If that sounds like a line from a fairy tale, it is. It was also the philosophy that helped Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Stein Smith build their historic Frank Lloyd Wright house in Bloomfield Hills in 1949. The dream began for Melvyn Maxwell (known as Smithy) in 1939, while teaching at a Detroit public school. Mesmerized by a slide presentation of Wright’s Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania, he made a grandiose vow to his fiance, Sara — also a teacher with a modest salary — “One day we will own a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.” According to an excerpt from “Frank Lloyd Wright Remembered,” after a chance meeting with Wright at his home, Taliesin, the Smiths spent hours in the architect’s studio sharing their vision of building one of his homes in Michigan. They wanted it to become a mecca for artists and musicians — hosting small concerts and art exhibitions yearlong. Wright was […]
How influential was Frank Lloyd Wright? UNESCO inscribed eight of his sites to the World Heritage List. See why his work is worthy of this global recognition.
Take a photo tour of the incredible Laurent House in Rockford Illinois - A Usonian home that Frank Lloyd Wright called his Little Gem.
So far, David Romero has digitally reconstructed more than 20 of the famous architect's unrealized projects
Image 7 of 7 from gallery of Frank Lloyd Wright's Civic Center Captured on Film by Skyler Dahan. Courtesy of Skyler Dahan
The iconic landmark was designed by a son of Frank Lloyd Wright, and once owned by such actors as Diane Keaton and Christina Ricci
Officials doubted that the famed architect's Johnson Wax headquarters in Racine, Wis., was structurally sound. But no one questions the master. CNET Road Trip 2013 checked out the stunning building.
The noted architect designed the house and nearly all the furniture and accessories inside it.
A home designed by one of Frank Lloyd Wright's protégés is now on the market in Clearwater.
Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin 2840 - Lindal Architects Collaborative
The design embraces curves and natural materials.
Officials doubted that the famed architect's Johnson Wax headquarters in Racine, Wis., was structurally sound. But no one questions the master. CNET Road Trip 2013 checked out the stunning building.
The Sondern-Adler house in Kansas City, Missouri, is an early Usonian design by Frank Lloyd Wright, meant to be lower-cost.
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Architectural historian Mark Anthony Wilson creates a striking compendium of Frank Lloyd Wright’s West Coast projects
Exquisite Usonian House in Issaquah, Washington, by Frank Lloyd Wright. Photos by Paul Michael Davis, Architect www.paulmichaeldavis.com
Kaneji Domoto, a little-known architect from the Bay Area, designed five houses for the famous planned community of Usonia.
We talk with Stuart Graff, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation CEO, about this year’s celebration of the iconic architect’s 150th Birthday.
Kaneji Domoto, a little-known architect from the Bay Area, designed five houses for the famous planned community of Usonia.
The legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright never wore his heart on his sleeve. For better or for worse, he dressed up his blueprints in his feelings, and nowhere is that reflex so painfully clear than in his handful of mysterious, pre-Colombian-inspired houses built in California in the early 1920s. You could call them “the…
The four-bedroom modified Usonian home is only 35 minutes from Manhattan
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of his birth on June 8, the architect's foundation recommended this selection of Wright's top homes open for tours.
Of all Frank Lloyd Wright's unbuilt designs, a snub from Wright's adopted home state of 25 years for its Capitol building still reverberates with this resident's commentary: "What could be more ridiculous than for Arizona to go on record before the world and our own descendants as having rejected Frank Lloyd Wright as an architect?” Find out why Arizona never got its Capitol from America's most famous architect.
La arquitecta Julia Velázquez viaja hasta Pensilvania para conocer de cerca uno de los grandes iconos de la arquitectura del siglo XX: la Casa de la Cascada de Frank Lloyd Wright. A continuación, lo que necesitas saber si quieres visitarla: localización, transporte, precio, etc.
Ezra Stoller, the architect's photographer of choice, captured nearly all of his iconic works
The late architect’s trust is stepping up its suite of domestic and overseas excursions through its Travel Wright program
