The Usonian Automatic was the last residential building type that Frank Lloyd Wright devised in his more than seventy-year career, and only seven of these small, “affordable” houses were ever built.
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings on UNESCO World Heritage List
What’s old is new, what’s new is old. Eight of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s idiosyncratic modern buildings have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, the international preservation organization announced on Sunday.
From the Spoon to the City: An architect’s perspective
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s latest exhibition From the Spoon to the City: Design by Architects from LACMA’s Collection highlights great design from the 20th century and explores architects’ passion for designing both buildings and their contents. It includes objects by Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, Michael Graves, and Frank Gehry. The slideshow below …
Great Estates: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona
“Living in the desert is the spiritual cathartic a great many people need. I am one of them.” -FLW This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the iconic Fifth Avenue building designed by seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The museum’s golden anniversary has inspired a year-long series of events beginning with the exhibition Frank Lloyd …
National Trust lists America’s most endangered historic sites for 2009
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its annual list of the most endangered historic places in the United States today, ranging from the sacred site of Mount Taylor, New Mexico to the Enola Gay Hangar at Wendover Airfield in Utah. Among the 11 sites on this year’s list are: * Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois Designed for Frank …
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Zimmerman House
August 2008 | The house on the corner of Heather and Union Streets in Manchester, New Hampshire, is surprising. It’s a low-slung arrow, as taut as an Army cot. When Frank Lloyd Wright designed this Usonian house for Isadore J. and Lucille Zimmerman in 1950, nine out of ten new houses built were ranch style. The Zimmerman House was an …