Frank Lloyd Wright

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(1867-1959, United States)   |   | 

( fr ) Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 - April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer, educator, and philosopher from Oak Park, Illinois. He designed more than 1,000 projects, of which more than 500 resulted in completed works. Wright promoted organic architecture (exemplified by Fallingwater), originated the Prairie School of architecture (exemplified by the Robie House), and developed the concept of the Usonian home (exemplified by the Rosenbaum House). His work includes original and innovative examples of many different building types, including offices, churches, schools, hotels, and museums. Wright also often designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass. Wright authored twenty books and numerous articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life frequently made headlines, most notably for the failure of his first two marriages and for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio. Already well-known during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as 'the greatest American architect of all time'

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Love and Consequences
The February selection for my library book club was Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, a novel of historical fiction based on the love affair between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney. There is a great website set up for this book, with photos and more. I chose this novel as one of our book selections in [...] [Read more]
some time ago on A life in books  (Frank Lloyd Wright) 
Exhibition of Works Reflecting the Evolution of the Guggenheim's
and the Frank Lloyd Wright building, the current site of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was officially unveiled ten years later, in 1959. [Read more]
8 days ago on Art Daily  (Frank Lloyd Wright) 
Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Ennis House to be sold
    BEIJING, June 23 -- Frank Lloyd Wright's famed, long-endangered Ennis House, which served as a location for films such as Blade Runner, is putting out a for sale sign with a 15 million U.S. dollars asking price, Christie's said on Friday.    The 6,000-square-foot Los Angeles estate is being sold by the Ennis House Foundation, which recently completed the initial phase of a stabilization and restoration project after years of decay and damage from earthquakes and torrential rains. In Ma [Read more]
12 days ago on Xinhua  (Frank Lloyd Wright) 
Capitalist time in Chicago
Onward to Oak Park, where just a few blocks apart are the homes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Ernest Hemingway, 20th century lions who were ringtail monkeys at home to hear their seven wives tell it, and they should know. We learned that taxes on a stunning privately-owned Wright-built residence are $1,000 per week, proof that at least one Chicago homeowner is doing very well indeed. I took a picture of my son on Hemingway's porch but by then the clouds had parted; we decided that the big game hunte [Read more]
14 days ago on Dubuque Telegraph Herald  (Frank Lloyd Wright) 
Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Ennis House to be sold
The 6,000-square-foot Los Angeles estate is being sold by the Ennis House Foundation, which recently completed the initial phase of a stabilization and restoration project after years of decay and damage from earthquakes and torrential rains. In March 2005, it was placed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's most-endangered list. [Read more]
14 days ago on Washington Post  (Frank Lloyd Wright) 
Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House on the Market
A severely damaged Frank Lloyd Wright landmark in Los Angeles used in movies and TV shows is up for sale for $15 million by a foundation whose fundraising efforts are hurting, the Associated Press reported.The nonprofit Ennis House Foundation owns the 1924 Ennis House, which sits on a hilltop north of downtown L.A. near Griffith Park. The structure was seriously damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. In 2005, storms caused a retaining wall to buckle, adding to the problems. The foundation h [Read more]
15 days ago on HispanicBusiness.com  (Frank Lloyd Wright) 
$15M for Frank Lloyd Wright fixer-upper
A car garage outside the Ennis House, which is under threat from torrential rain and earthquakes. (Michael Buckner/Getty Images)The Mayan-inspired Ennis House, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Los Angeles that has suffered the effects of weather and earthquakes, is going on the market.The Ennis Foundation, a private trust that owns the house, is asking $15 million US from a buyer who is willing to invest in preserving the property.The foundation recently completed a stabilization and restor [Read more]
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Frank Lloyd Wright's famed, long-endangered Ennis House, which served as a location for films such as Blade Runner, is putting out a for sale sign with a $15 million asking price, Christie's said on Friday. The 6,000-square-foot Los Angeles estate is being sold by the Ennis House Foundation, which recently completed the initial phase of a stabilization and restoration project after years of decay and damage from earthquakes and torrential rains. In March 2005, it was pla [Read more]
15 days ago on Washington Post  (Frank Lloyd Wright) 
Fallingwater, a landmark in
 My colleague Martha Groves passed this along: Frank Lloyd Wright's landmark house in Pennsylvania, rendered as a Lego kit. No running waterfall, but still ...A Lego spokeswoman says this Fallingwater will be available Aug. 1. It will sell for about $100 at Lego stores and at www.brickstructures.com, which also has Lego sets of the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Space Needle in Seattle and Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The museum, by the way, has an exhibition on the architect [Read more]
18 days ago on Los Angeles Times  (Frank Lloyd Wright) 
LAistory: The Ennis House
The Ennis House, however, remains, shining out over Los Feliz. Built in 1924 by Frank Lloyd Wright, it is a stunning example of his work, certainly of of the most unique dwellings in California. It has the only four mosaic windows known to be designed by Wright himself. Though the house retains some of of Wright's prairie style, it is also high art deco, mingled with Mayan architecture and the result is both surprising and elegant. The house has not been lived in since 1980, when the Browns (t [Read more]
21 days ago on LAist  (Frank Lloyd Wright) 
A review of Communities of Frank Lloyd Wright: Taliesen and Beyond
This tension between Wright?s best intentions and his real-life problems drives the best of the literature about the architect. Here, though, the facts are interesting, but Marty doesn?t take advantage of the tension. It?s fun to learn that Spring Green and Madison businesspeople were so mad at Wright?s failure to pay them for their work that several of them came to blows with him; in one incident in Madison, Wright was kicked in the bridge of his nose. Later, five of the apprentices tried to ex [Read more]
24 days ago on Isthmus  (Frank Lloyd Wright) 
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