Theaters designed by Frank Lloyd Wright & Taliesin Assoc
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owenCollins
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Theaters designed by Frank Lloyd Wright & Taliesin Assoc
Hi I am, in addition to being a fellow Wright enthusiast, a professor of Theater Design. I am trying to compile a list of various theater buildings designed by both Mr. Wright and the Taliesin Associated Architects. Should I track down the Monographs and just comb thru them looking for theater Structures?
That won't be necessary; we'll come up with a definitive list here. I'll wait for others to contribute suggestions, then (if necessary) complete the search and make a list. Offhand I'll guess there are no more than a half-dozen . . .
Churches have more than a little in common with theaters. If we were to add those the list would suddenly swell.
SDR
Churches have more than a little in common with theaters. If we were to add those the list would suddenly swell.
SDR
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owenCollins
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The ones I can think of:
Hillside theater at Taliesin
Kalita Humphreys/ Dallas Theater Center - Based on a 1931 proposal for Woodstock NY.
Music Pavilion at Taliesin West
Cabaret Theater at Taliesin West
The Kiva at Taliesin West was used to show movies, and might not count.
Did Midway Gardens have a stage?
Hillside theater at Taliesin
Kalita Humphreys/ Dallas Theater Center - Based on a 1931 proposal for Woodstock NY.
Music Pavilion at Taliesin West
Cabaret Theater at Taliesin West
The Kiva at Taliesin West was used to show movies, and might not count.
Did Midway Gardens have a stage?
Gammage Auditorium at ASU.
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, by TAA, looks like a knockoff of Gammage.
Theater, never built, for Aline Barnsdall's property in LA.
The Coonley playhouse has some interior steps that made the upper part a stage for the children's performances.
He might have designed a theater while in Tokyo (or was it a sumo-wrestling stadium?).
Legend is that the roof over the Hollyhock loggia was a stage, with the central courtyard a place for the audience, and that Martha Graham performed there, but the legend hasn't stood up under examination.
Opera House design for Baghdad, which may have been the precursor of Gammage.
San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, by TAA, looks like a knockoff of Gammage.
Theater, never built, for Aline Barnsdall's property in LA.
The Coonley playhouse has some interior steps that made the upper part a stage for the children's performances.
He might have designed a theater while in Tokyo (or was it a sumo-wrestling stadium?).
Legend is that the roof over the Hollyhock loggia was a stage, with the central courtyard a place for the audience, and that Martha Graham performed there, but the legend hasn't stood up under examination.
Opera House design for Baghdad, which may have been the precursor of Gammage.
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The theater at Taliesin (North) hasn't been mentioned.
In "Treasures of Taliesin," on the pages following the Spaulding print gallery, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer reminds us that two theaters were planned for Olive Hill;
in Monograph 4, p 170, he mentions a movie theater designed for Japan and possibly proposed to Aline Barnsdall -- and on p 172 we have the Little Dipper
"kindergarten-community theatre" for the same property.
Even without the work of TAA, my initial estimate is looking like a slight on the reality ! A sub-task will be listing the built vs the unbuilt theaters . . .
SDR
In "Treasures of Taliesin," on the pages following the Spaulding print gallery, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer reminds us that two theaters were planned for Olive Hill;
in Monograph 4, p 170, he mentions a movie theater designed for Japan and possibly proposed to Aline Barnsdall -- and on p 172 we have the Little Dipper
"kindergarten-community theatre" for the same property.
Even without the work of TAA, my initial estimate is looking like a slight on the reality ! A sub-task will be listing the built vs the unbuilt theaters . . .
SDR
Tucson Creative Dance Center by John Howe while with TAA might be considered.
http://tucson.com/morguetales/historic- ... 5c5.html#1
http://tucson.com/morguetales/historic- ... 5c5.html#1
There were a theater and a cabaret in the Imperial Hotel.
Wasn’t there a motion picture theater project for California at about the same time as Midway Gardens?
Then there was the Michael Todd theater prototype in the 1950’s.
If amphitheaters count, there was one proposed lakeside at Florida Southern for water events. Also, one in the grand scheme for Pittsburgh Point Park and one proposed for the Marin County Fairgrounds.
Later the TAA designed Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium by TAA was built at the fair grounds.
Wasn’t there a motion picture theater project for California at about the same time as Midway Gardens?
Then there was the Michael Todd theater prototype in the 1950’s.
If amphitheaters count, there was one proposed lakeside at Florida Southern for water events. Also, one in the grand scheme for Pittsburgh Point Park and one proposed for the Marin County Fairgrounds.
Later the TAA designed Marin Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium by TAA was built at the fair grounds.