Graycliff has also announced an expanded slate of tours for the 2008 season. A reduced schedule began Monday, April 7 (my birthday. Coincidence?), and a full, seven day schedule begins Saturday, May 24 and runs through September 1, and a reduced schedule again from September 2 through November 30. Yuletide tours begin the day after […]
This Spring and Fall, the Graycliff Conservancy is hosting a special lecture series, “The Woman is the Client: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Women Patrons”.
The series is designed to illuminate Wright’s residential designs for female clients over the course of his long career. In the 20th century, a time in architectural/social history when far more men than women […]
“Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful” exhibit opens in Reno, Nevada, at the Nevada Museum of Art, on April 19 and runs through July 20.
This exhibition is divided into three themes that represent the methods by which Wright practiced the philosophy of the “house beautiful.” Each section is presented through period and contemporary photographs […]
Short notice, sorry, but Saturday, April 5 is Moving-in day at the Weltzheimer-Johnson House in Oberlin, Ohio (blame the WJ folks who never send me announcements). The day celebrates the 59th anniversary of the day the Weltzheimer family moved in.
Admission is free (normally $5) and a number of family events are planned, including The […]
On Thursday, April 3 Robert McCarter will give a free lecture at the St. Louis Museum of Art, “The Houses of Frank Lloyd Wright”. The lecture begins at 7 PM.
Robert McCarter is a professor at Washington University and author of one of the best biographies of Wright in recent years.
Information available here
The event is sponsored by […]
Mark Hertzberg has a new post at Wright in Racine. This one on the exhibit “Hollyhock House and Olive Hill: Frank Lloyd Wright and Edmund Teske”, opening April 19 in Milwaukee at the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. The exhibit is showing at the Price Tower Arts Center through the end of March.
Mark is a […]
February 29, 2008 – 12:47 pm
Two upcoming events sponsored by The Westcott House that you may want to consider:
March 13: “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Building”
A lecture by Richard Cleary of the University of Texas at Austin
Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of organic architecture embraced building technology as well as form, space and materials, and he prided himself as […]
February 22, 2008 – 2:49 pm
For health reasons, Dr. Christian won’t be at the reception at the Westcott House this Sunday.
The event is still scheduled — interpreters from Samara will be on hand to discuss the house.
Note that the Westcott House is organizing a trip to Samara on April 5 — if you live near Springfield, Ohio, this would be […]
February 21, 2008 – 6:37 pm
2008 is the 50th anniversary of the R. W. Lindholm Service Station in Cloquet, Minnesota. To mark the milestone, the station will be refurbished and a number of events are planned.
An exhibition of drawings, plans and photos will run at the Carlton County Historical Society June 12 - Sept. 11; A symposium featuring an architect […]
February 16, 2008 – 11:33 am
The Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio is hosting an exhibit on Samara, a Usonian in Lafayette, Indiana:
This exhibition features the work of America’s most celebrated architect through an exciting collection of drawings depicting many of Wright’s most famous buildings as well as furnishings, textiles and other items designed for Samara, one of the late Usonian […]