The Great Living Creative Spirit: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy in Japan, the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy’s first tour of Japan since a small board-only retreat in 2000, will take place Nov. 11-22, 2018. The main tour, which runs from Nov. 11-20 and is limited to 27 attendees, will cover a broad portion of Japan, beginning in Tokyo and ending with the art-filled islands of Naoshima, Teshima and Inujima near Okayama in…

Wright’s V.C. Morris Gift Shop, which the Conservancy toured on its San Francisco conference in 2016 while it was closed to the public, reopened in late September 2017 as the third U.S. outpost of Italian men’s fashion label ISAIA. The Conservancy has been in contact with ISAIA leadership since shortly before the company officially leased the space in 2016; earlier this year they came to our Chicago office to present their plans…

More than 200 people attended the Conservancy’s sold-out 2017 annual conference, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150, held Sept. 13-17 in New York. In honor of Wright’s sesquicentennial year, the conference included a three-day international symposium, Rethinking Frank Lloyd Wright at 150, which featured 18 speakers from around the world highlighting new thinking about Wright’s architecture and its ongoing interest to contemporary architectural history, culture and practice. Hundreds—ranging from local university…

The Frank Lloyd Wright World Heritage Council working on the nomination for Key Works of Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright continues to work on a revised nomination, which will be considered for the 2019 World Heritage meeting. The committee is collaborating with the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), which is the technical agency that reviews, analyzes and advises on nominations submitted for inscription on the World Heritage List….

One of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy’s biggest annual fundraisers is a silent auction held during our annual conference. This year, limited hotel space at the conference in New York (Sept. 13-17) prevents us from having a silent auction, so instead we’ve curated a limited selection of items for an online auction. The best part? Bidding is open to all Conservancy members! Items range from artwork and collectibles to…