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CONSERVANCY’S FIRST MAJOR TOUR OF JAPAN SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 2018

The Great Living Creative Spirit: Frank Lloyd Wright's Legacy in Japan will feature Wright's extant work and a specially curated selection of modern architecture.

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V.C. MORRIS GIFT SHOP REOPENS WITH LUXURY MENSWEAR BRAND ISAIA

The retail space, Wright's only work in the city of San Francisco, had been vacant since 2015.

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New York Conference and Symposium Celebrate Wright at 150

More than a dozen buildings were featured during the Conservancy's conference in New York, which included a three-day international symposium at The Museum of Modern Art that drew hundreds.

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World Heritage Nomination Update

The Conservancy and partner sites eye 2019 for new consideration of the sites first nominated to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2015.

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Conservancy To Present Panel Discussion at Unity Temple

A panel of experts, including restoration architect Gunny Harboe, will discuss the restoration of Unity Temple on Oct. 26 as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

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Our mission is to facilitate the preservation and maintenance of the remaining structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright through education, advocacy and technical services.

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CONSERVANCY EVENTS

Back on the Cutting Edge: Building 21st-Century Technology into Wright’s Unity Temple

October 26, 2017 Unity Temple, 875 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL

CONSERVANCY EVENTS

Out and About Wright: Des Moines

May 4-6, 2018 Des Moines, Iowa

WRIGHT ON THE MARKET

Edward and Florence Irving House

Decatur, IL

WRIGHT ON THE MARKET

Kier House

Glencoe, IL

WRIGHT ON THE MARKET

Henderson House

Elmhurst, IL

WRIGHT ON THE MARKET

Rayward House

New Canaan, CT

WRIGHT ON THE MARKET

Booth House

Glencoe, IL

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AROUND THE WRIGHT WORLD

Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem, and Modern Housing

The exhibition’s narrative takes the form of two interwoven plotlines, developed through displays of project-specific drawings, photographs, and other material dating from the late 1920s to the late 1950s. One plotline tracks the Broadacre scheme as it plays out in Wright’s subsequent work, scattered around the country; the other tracks the development of public housing in Harlem, ending just outside the gallery, adjacent to Columbia’s new campus. Both stories connect social institutions, such as the nuclear family, with economic structures, such as private property or its alternatives. In Wright’s incompletely realized “American Dream” of exurban living we witness lines of race, class, and gender being drawn. Harlem’s public housing complexes draw similar lines. They also, however, acknowledge a right—the right to housing—that is actively forgotten in America today.

AROUND THE WRIGHT WORLD

Wright for Wright Exhibition: The Experimental Architecture of Wright’s Homes

In his 1953 book The Future of Architecture, Wright famously declared, “Every great architect is—necessarily—a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” The poetry of Wright’s architecture drew from nature and his three most personal designs—a home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois; a rural Wisconsin estate, Taliesin; and an Arizona desert sanctuary, Taliesin West—reflected an evolution of his organic architecture principles over a span of seven decades. Each home encapsulated differing roles for Wright as a designer, teacher, writer or businessman where living and working were often simultaneous activities. Wright for Wright explores the important design aspects of each home as well as their function within Wright’s life and legacy. This exhibition will be on view in the Speyer Gallery at Fallingwater from April 1 through Dec. 2017.

AROUND THE WRIGHT WORLD

John Vinci: Life and Landmarks

IIT Architecture and the Mies van der Rohe Society honor John Vinci and celebrate the new book by Robert Sharoff and William Zbaren, John Vinci: Life and Landmarks.

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