Wired.com has a feature on architecture that never was. It begins with an image of Frank Lloyd Wright’s mile-high skycraper, The Illinois, as it would look against Chicago’s 2005 skyline. Pointless, but cool
I took the day on Monday, and PrairieMod had a nice catch — this page from the June 1930 edition of Modern Mechanics showing a proposed Frank Lloyd Wright skyscraper for New York City. The building was to be built of concrete and glass with no structural steel.
One of the unusual features of this building […]
It’s possible that I’ve posted this before, but Not PC has posted it now
Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1938 Dream House
And Time’s commentary is here
The 1938 Dream House was built — the Bernard Schwartz House in Wisconsin, which is available for overnight rentals and open for tours on selected dates.
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 […]
[Found via ArchitectureChicago Plus]
The alumni magazine for Yale had a very good profile of Vincent Scully, one of the (or maybe just the) most influential art historians.
Scully was a client of Wright’s (though his house was never built — too expensive) and among his students is Neil Levine, himself an important Wright scholar.
The article […]
Lynn Becker’s site, “Repeat“: has an article on artist Alfonso Iannelli, who designed show cards for vaudeville acts in the early years of the Twentieth Century. His work for the theater were “a striking synthesis of art nouveau and cubism, highly abstracted, with a stress on saturated primary colors”. John Lloyd Wright saw the posters […]
via Edward Lifson
Notre Dame’s Architecture Library slide collection has been made available on Flickr — more than 2,700 photographs. The images are from a pre-WWI collection, and include buildings in Europe, Asia and Central and South America. No Wright (in fact, no US) but worth a look.
The ones from Greece are amazing, especially the photos […]
Heritage Hill is the neighborhood in Grand Rapids, MI that is home to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Meyer May House and the Mahoney/Von Holst/Wright Amberg House. There is a house-by-house on-line database (similar to the Oak Park Architectural Database) with recent photos, photos from 1969 and historical information for all of the 1,300 houses in the […]
Frank Lloyd Wright’s home in New York City, The Plaza Hotel, has re-opened after a $400 million restoration.
Rates for rooms start at $1,000 a night.
“When you hear $1,000 a night for a room it might seem like a lot, but in the end it’s not about the price, it’s about the experience,” said Bill Carroll, […]
February 24, 2008 – 9:05 am
During the Meiji Restoration, the combination of photography, the Western-style printing press and the Japanese tradition of ukiyo-e created e-hagaki — colorful, beautiful picture postcards.
The website Old Tokyo displays a number of these postcards, including several of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel interior and exterior views (even a bird’s-eye view that gives a sense size […]