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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Viewpoints
How Dune and Poor Things Rely on Architecture History
This year's sci-fi and fantasy blockbusters are the latest in an ongoing relationship between architecture and science fiction.
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The School of Architecture Adapts to an Uncertain Future
After a messy divorce from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, the unconventional architecture school relocated to Arcosanti. So far, it’s going well.
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Projects
Artist David Hartt Takes Over a Frank Lloyd Wright–Designed Synagogue
On view through December 19, David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier) explores themes of diaspora and belonging.
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Frank Lloyd Wright–Designed Textiles Go On View at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The textiles and wallpapers featured in Frank Lloyd Wright Textiles: The Taliesin Line, 1955–60 were based on Wright’s architectural vocabulary and inspired by specific buildings.
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Step into Houses Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Acolyte Kaneji Domoto
These 12 photos of Domoto's Lurie and Bier houses were taken for Domoto: Visions of Usonia, a new exhibit at SUNY Purchase's Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery.
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For a Community of Gamers, The Sims Is a Gateway to the Real World of Architecture
Drawing inspiration from iconic architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, many fans of the popular life-simulation game are using it to design virtual worlds.
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Profiles
Remembering Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prolific Archivist
Scholars remember the man who devoted over six decades to one, meaningful mission—keeping alive the Wright legacy for generations to come.
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Projects
Frank Lloyd Wright Redesigned the Suburbs—Today’s Architects Should Do the Same
Architects may not like it, but sprawl isn’t going away. Frank Lloyd Wright not only understood that, he dared to reimagine it.
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Projects
Dramatic Frank Lloyd Wright–Designed Performance Space Restored
The Music Pavilion at Taliesin West, Wright's desert home, was recently refurbished to its near-original state.
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Viewpoints
What Frank Lloyd Wright Can Teach Us About the Future of Architectural Education
The architect eschewed formal education and emphasized learning by doing. In our digital era, that ethos might still be workable.
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Viewpoints
Frank Lloyd Wright Was a Proto-Algorithmic Architect
It seems that the most contemporary aspect of Wright’s work is his unique, manually recursive design process.
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How Abstract Art Influenced Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture at the Guggenheim
Nonobjective art may have been a major factor in Wright's design for the Guggenheim, according to a new Yale University Press book.
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Viewpoints
Aging and Demolished Frank Lloyd Wright Projects Prompt a New Look at Experimental Preservation
A slew of experimental restoration projects are intersecting with Wright’s ideas in interesting ways.
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New Exhibit Explores Race, Gender, Class, and More, in Frank Lloyd Wright’s and Harlem’s Housing
"Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem & Modern Housing" explores the parallel evolution of Wright's and Harlem's built and unbuilt housing designs.
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Products
Schumacher Breathes New Life Into Frank Lloyd Wright’s Forgotten Textiles
The textile company and the master architect collaborated in 1955. A new collection finds fresh purpose in those vintage designs.
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Profiles
Should Architects Work With Nature or Resist It?
Frank Lloyd Wright urged architects to work with nature. But as the planet warms, they may need to pursue a more defensive, “resilient” position.
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Profiles
Students, Inspired by Broadacre City, Imagine a Better, Collective Sprawl
In revisiting the speculative proposal, pupils at the School of Architecture at Taliesin strive for avant-garde status without the aesthetic trappings of “Mr. Wright.”
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A Sustainable Way of Life: Taliesin West Continues Wright’s Legacy
Apprentice, resident, and practitioner for two decades at Taliesin West, Vern Swaback explores how the site's past and future are intertwined.
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Viewpoints
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Life, In Hipster-Friendly Illustrations
Despite its styling as a kids book—the illustrations are cartoonish in the way Chris Ware's are—this biography is a substantive account of Wright's life and work.
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Profiles
Frank Lloyd Wright on American Democracy’s Potential for “Mobocracy”
A new book, edited by Kenneth Frampton, collects Wright's prolific writings, including various political musings on the potential for Americans to lose their freedoms.