For four decades AD has shown a spotlight on the creations of one of America's most innovative and iconic architects. Here are just a few of the highlights
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.
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The four-bedroom modified Usonian home is only 35 minutes from Manhattan
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A home designed by one of Frank Lloyd Wright's protégés is now on the market in Clearwater.
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Architectural historian Mark Anthony Wilson creates a striking compendium of Frank Lloyd Wright’s West Coast projects
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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 […]
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The Sondern-Adler house in Kansas City, Missouri, is an early Usonian design by Frank Lloyd Wright, meant to be lower-cost.
While there are numerous must-see Frank Lloyd Wright structures scattered across the United States, we’ve selected the 16 best residences we feel exemplify Wright’s pioneering vision and relentless quest to create efficient and beautiful places to live.
The iconic architect designed hundreds of residential properties in his career—homeowners share what it’s like living in a Frank Lloyd Wright house
The Sondern-Adler house in Kansas City, Missouri, is an early Usonian design by Frank Lloyd Wright, meant to be lower-cost.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1959, New York, NY.
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art now counts this icon of midcentury residential architecture among its impressive holdings
Recent changes at his namesake foundation and school, plus a sage new museum exhibit, put a necessary twist on a legend’s legacy.
So far, David Romero has digitally reconstructed more than 20 of the famous architect's unrealized projects
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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.
The Madison is inspired by Jacobs 1, Frank Lloyd Wright's first Usonian home, built in 1937. A single-story home design by Lindal Cedar Homes.
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.
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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.
Home Advisor selected the most historically and architecturally important United States homes by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, famous house for architecture, is a great attraction near Pittsburgh, PA in the Laurel Highlands, even in "falling water"!
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Frank Lloyd Wright's signature style and ongoing influence have long inspired architecture around the globe, and continues to today. In the current issue of the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly magazine, "UNESCO World Heritage: The 20th Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright," Foundation President & CEO, Stuart Graff, shares more about this influence.
In the late 1950s, Frank Lloyd Wright experimented with inflatable architecture when he created Fiberthin Airhouses, an innovative, affordable living space made from a durable nylon material. Like many of Wright's designs, the Fiberthin Airhouses were seen as a thing of the future.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, SC Johnson Wax Complex and Research Tower, Racine Wisconsins, 1936 – 1939.
This Frank Lloyd Wright house is among the few houses to have been relocated. Originally situated on the bank of the Millstone River in Millstone, New Jersey, it now resides all the way over in Arkansas.
The Norman Lykes Residence is a circular desert home
A decade after finishing the SC Johnson Administration building in Racine, Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright started the construction of the Research and Development Tower. The 1950s building for SC Johnson was the home to many of the company’s most well-known inventions and was in need of lab facilities for their rising research and development department.
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.
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.
Kentuck Knob is one of several Frank Lloyd Wright homes in Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands. Find out what it's like to tour this beautiful home and its grounds.
