PrairieMod had a great catch today : a link to a nice post on the sprout dc weblog drawing attention to Wright’s solar hemicylce design for the Jacobs II House.
I find the home most interesting because of its relationship to the site and its integration with a landscape that extends from the north berm […]
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 […]
The Westcott House has a page on YouTube with two videos, one a four minute documentary on the house and its restoration. Be warned, there is a brief, horrific sequence in the middle with footage of the pre-restoration state of the building; that the building has been restored, let alone to its current, stunningly beautiful […]
A few months ago, I mentioned dgunning.org’s fantastic web-based house-by-house tours of Forrest Ave and Kenilworth Ave and Elizabeth Ct.. in Oak Park. Added to the site is a database of historic architecture in the village. A great thing if you’ve ever wanted to find, say, every E. E. Roberts house in Oak Park, or […]
Either it’s new, or I never noticed it before, but the Bernard Schwartz House has an updated website, with a longer History page (with a few historical photos of the home in a nearly-but-not-quite-completed state), an expanded photo section, rental information, availability and a schedule of tours (first sunday of every other month, $7, reservations by […]
Wright Chat, a feature of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy’s site has returned after a short absence. The level of discourse on the site had become ridiculously childish in the past year or so, and the Save Wright folks have stepped to restore civility. The terms of use have been tightened and new software […]
The endlessly fascinating weblog Strange Maps has posted a map drawn by Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the Garden City movement that influenced the City Beautiful movement in the US that Daniel Burnham epitomized, first in his design for the Columbian World’s Fair and then his 1909 Plan of Chicago
[Burnham’s work even influenced the […]
The Great silence continues — no Frank Lloyd Wright news; why I’m surprised that a guy fifty years dead isn’t making news, I don’t know, but I am.
So, to fill the lonely hours, there is the Encyclopedia of Chicago, an amazing web-based collection of articles on every aspect of the history of our favorite city. […]