Wright Chat

Anyone know why Doug Anders has not updated the FLLW Newsblog in several weeks?

Thanks, EJ!

Has anyone tried signing up for this tour? I cannot reach, or get a call back from, the Cranbrook Art Museum.

...today (Wednesday, April 9) marks the 49th anniversary of the Master's death.

Congratulations! Don't mind the rest of us if we break a commandment coveting your new house.

FYI, B&N has the book on its website at the bargain price: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Sh ... 96/?itm=10

While perusing the Barnes & Noble discount rack this weekend, I happened upon "The Show to End All Shows: Frank Lloyd Wright and The Museum of Modern Art, 1940," an interesting little (240 pages) book put out by MOMA in 2004 as part of its "Studies in Modern Art" series. The ...

If the first time you saw Fallingwater in person was a profound experience, enjoy watching it happen to two young men by watching the following from the 5:15 mark to 8:30 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj2T_j0Go7o&feature=related . (NOTE: When the video is from a distance, their camera is acc...

Looks like another generation of Wright fans is coming to the fore. Happened upon this video (the first in a series) of two young men, apparently in their late teens, roadtripping to the works of FLLW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCm1gwGQjeY&feature=related . Their sheer joy at seeing his wor...

I note that the new Global Seed Vault -- architecture for organics, if you will -- has a connection to our hero of organic architecture. The Vault is located in Longyearbyen, Norway. Longyearbyen was founded by, and named for, John Munroe Longyear. One of Longyear's children was Abby Beecher Roberts...

Let's say that you have finally cracked from seeing one too many cul-de-sacs of tightly-bunched McMansion-esque houses, you have a goodly sum of money to throw around, and you want to challenge the status quo with a competitive development of homes based on the Usonian ideal (put aside for now wheth...

FYI, the new Grand Rapids Art Museum in Grand Rapids, MI has a design exhibition that includes one of only ten side chairs from Wright's 1908 design of Browne's Bookstore, and a fantastic 8-panel screen created by Gene Masselink for the Gordon residence's master bedroom. There's also an ornate cast ...

I have stopped at a couple of these plazas over the last few years, and always note the subtle attempts to emulate FLLW, especially the concrete forms rising from the roof over the entry doors. Actually, they look to me a little like an attempt to answer the question, "what if FLLW and Thomas J...

Thank you for the post, RJH. The video of the Schaberg House was particularly fascinating. Can you or anyone enlighten us as to the origin of the "tower room" across the pool from the house? Was that an FLLW idea? Taliesin Associates?

You should definitely venture over to the southwest corner of the state to see Harper in St. Joseph. Gazing on the house, and then pivoting to take in the view of Lake Michigan just across the street, is well worth the mileage. While there, you can also quickly get to and catch glimpses from the str...