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 […]
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 […]
On Saturday, October 6, the British paper the Guardian began a 2-week, 12-building survey of modern architecture, “Great Modern Buildings”. The dead tree edition of the paper will have poster-sized pull-outs for each (oh, to live in England) and the website will feature an interactive guide to five of the buildings (for us luckless colonials […]