Article: Corbin Education Center - (Wichita, KS)

[DavidC]

The Story Behind the Building: Corbin


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[SDR]

https://library.artstor.org/#/search/Wr ... =1;size=24

Taschen III, p 551

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[DavidC]

WSU building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright closed for the school year following flooding


David

[SDR]

Are we still being told the Corbin is a Wright design ? What's the real story ?

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[DRN]

In the Avery archive link, there is an overall campus plan with Wright’s characteristic lively sketches atop a topographical plan indicating the footprints of the buildings developed in the later drawings. The level of specificity of Wright’s footprint sketches exceeds those of the Lykes house. There is also an aerial rendering with Wright’s initials…assuming they were not written by Wes Peters, Wright approved of the scheme.

I’m inclined to think sketches that are in the Baghdad file probably further indicate Wright’s intent for these adaptations of those designs. The Grady Gammage Auditorium developed similarly.

[DavidC]

WSU building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright closed for the school year following flooding - (1:37)


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