Briefly in 2001, the Fine Arts Building was my favorite building in Chicago (that only lasted for 48 hours or so, until I walked into the playroom of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio). Though I had no clue at the time, Wright himself had a long association with the building (located next to Sultan’s […]
This house is one street over from the Winslow House and shares the street with one other Wright-design and William Drummond’s own home. Isabel Roberts worked in Wright’s office in Oak Park. The interior was updated by Wright in the 1950s by Wright himself.
Now that I’m posting this, I’m thinking that maybe I should have chosen a more original angle. Hey, it’s Monday morning, and I’m a little fuzzy-headed. I’ll do better tomorrow.
I have now added an About Me page (with a picture!). It’s over there at the top of the sidebar.
Right now, the long-time Newsblog readers are rolling their eyes, thinking, “Oh God, he’s going to mention that White House guy again, and he can’t go fine minutes without saying that he’s two dregrees of […]
A few days ago, I pointed to an article on the ice-block cooling system used in the Met Life building in Manhattan. Earlier this week, NPR’s All Things Considered interviewed the head of Critical Engineering Systems for Credit Suisse about the system. ATC also missed the Frank Lloyd Wright connection (introducing the interview, Robert Siegel […]
Here are two sites with nice photos of off-the-beaten-path Wright houses: Wingspread, near Racine and the Dobkins House in Canton, Ohio.
These photos of Wingspread were taken in 2004 by the artist who designed several lighting fixtures for the house in the 1980s (he returned to refurbish them after 20 years of service). There are […]
PrairieMod found a fantastic set of video clips from 1927 promoting a Sydney suburb planned by Walter Burley Griffin. The video clips nicely show off Griffin’s work and demonstrate his philosophical approach in a broad canvass — absolutely worth your time and easily the coolest I’ve linked to all month.
In June the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture had its accreditation status from the Higher Learning Commission upgraded from “on notice” to “continuing accreditation”, now the National Architectural Accrediting Board, which (obviously) accredits architectural programs, has also granted the school “continuing accreditation”, another vote of confidence.
Joseph Giattina, Jr., FAIA, chair of the NAAB’s visiting […]
I’ve always thought the the “About.com”: sites are banal and usually trite. Why The New York Times pays these people to write is one of the great mysteries of the early 21st Century.
“Did Frank Lloyd Wright Practice Feng Shui? NO!” (It’s more fun if you read the first part of the title with a breathless […]
A staff writer for C/Net News has been taking a Summer road trip through the Southwest, and one of his stops was Taliesin West. The article is basic, but I like to read about the reaction of non-acolytes (or acolytes about-to-be) to Wright’s work.
Accompanying the article is a gallery of what turned out to be […]