Category Archives: Audio & Video

[Audio & Video] Mike Wallace interview on the web

The Mike Wallace interview of Frank Lloyd Wright are notable for Wright gleefully taking provocative positions on just about every topic Wallace could think to raise. Wright is clearly enjoying tweeking the collective nose of 1950s America and equally clearly, he is spinning a myth, creating on television a version of himself that to be […]

[Film] The Last Wright

The Washington Post has a sort-of review of a new film about the preservation of the Park Inn in Mason City, Iowa The Last Wright. The film is playing at the Environmental Film Festival in Washington, D.C.

Carra’s hour-long film, which is unfortunately rather muddled in its effort to draw together too many threads, shows the […]

[Websites] Mark Hertzberg: Wright on DVD

Mark Hertzberg’s latest post on Wright in Racine is an interview with Tim Sakamoto. Sakamoto, in his Planet Architecture series, produces CD-ROM and DVD tours of significant buildings (full list of his disks can be seen here), including Fallingwater.

Sakamoto says he has a “critical” way of looking at buildings. He comes away “appreciating what […]

[Review] Christmas Gift Ideas

You’ve got a Wright-loving friend that needs a Christmas gift. Your friend has a Frank Lloyd Wright-shaped space under their Christmas tree.

Luckily for you — and your friend — the Newsblog is here in your darkest hour of yule-time need. The First Annual Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog Christmas Gift Guide is here. By the […]

Water Dome Video

The Ledger.com, (the website for the Lakeland, Florida newspaper) has video of the Water Dome ceremony. It includes comments by Anne Kerr, president of FSC, Phillip Allsopp of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Jeff Baker, the preservation architect who has been working on the Wright structures at Florida Southern.

(Watch the end of the video […]

Sacred Spaces showing in Alabama

The documentary film Sacred Spaces: The Houses of Worship Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright will be shown at the Kennedy-Douglas Center for the Arts in Florence, Alabama Sunday at 2PM. The director will be discussing the film prior to its showing and copies will be for sale. Admission is free.

The 52-minute documentary, Sacred Spaces: The […]

Great Buildings: Fallingwater

The Guardian’s 12-part Great Modern Buildings series reaches its grand finale with Fallingwater. It includes an appreciation by Jane Smiley (which is disappointing; I don’t think she grokked the house — it isn’t even clear that she visited it) and a video of critics talking about the building with some nice views of the house (though it’s […]

Review: Magnificent Obsession (Robert Venturi “Less is a bore” Edition)

Opposable digits firmly in the vertical orientation generally connoting approval.

That’s an unqualified recommendation, just in case you were wondering.

There’s a lot to like about this movie, and not much to complain about. A quick pace, great images and a good cubic mile of stuff you didn’t already know. I gained new perspective on Frank Lloyd […]

Zimmerman House on Story Corps

WGBH ’s program Morning Stories features one of the Story Corps submissions each Tuesday. This week’s was that of Richard Jankowski, an artist and staff member of the Rhode Island School of Design. His story was about Lucille Zimmerman, owner with her husband Isadore, of a Wright home in Manchester, New Hampshire. The story, not […]

Child of the Sun — Florida Southern College Tour DVD

Someone was kind enough to send me a copy of the DVD of the tour of Florida Southern College. It is impressive.

I’m often guilty forgetting that Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture is magnificent. I sometimes stuff it all into bins labeled “Usonian”, “Prairie” and “Other”.

“Oh, look: an L-shaped Usonian. Seen it before.”

Yep, I’m a philistine.

But […]