MoMa Unpacks Frank Lloyd Wright’s Archives in New Exhibit
June 22, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright was a radical architect, designer, thinker, and intellectual. He was also a bit of a pack rat. And lucky for us.
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The Bradbury Building offscreen
June 22, 2017
Since it opened in 1893, Downtown Los Angeles's Bradbury building has been the subject of fascination and endless speculation.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Japanese Education
June 8, 2017
Wright also had a rare nonarchitectural passion that set him apart from his mentor, Louis Sullivan, and his peers: Japanese art. Wright first became interested in his early 20’s, and within a decade, he was an internationally known collector of Japanese woodblock prints.
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The Unorthodox Fight to Save a Frank Lloyd Wright Home
June 8, 2017
When asked in 1969 what it was like to live in her Usonian home, Marjorie Leighey's response could be interpreted as unexpectedly sentimental: “In a sense, living there was a response to the feeling of the house.
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Frank Lloyd Wright at 150
June 8, 2017
Frank Lloyd Wright’s talent, creativity, and output are the reasons he’s still remembered on his 150th birthday, lionized for launching a modern, multifaceted American architecture.
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Yale and MoMA team up to resurrect visionary light works
June 2, 2017
Nearly a decade ago, a Seattle-based collector visiting New Haven, Connecticut, asked to see three works from the 1920s and 1930s by the artist Thomas Wilfred in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery.
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Frank Lloyd Wright in 45 essential works
June 2, 2017
Few figures are as ever-present in American architecture as Frank Lloyd Wright, a visionary whose work continues to serve as an inspiration, the bedrock upon which much of modernist architecture is built.
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Preserving History, One Window at a Time
May 30, 2017
Amy McAuley dabbled in politics and retail and worked as stagehand before she discovered carpentry. The Portland, Oregon resident started her own business, Oculus Fine Carpentry, in 2003.
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13 Things You Should Know About Retrofitting Historic Windows
May 30, 2017
In addition to adding beauty and character, original windows serve a great purpose—they connect the outside of the building to the inside and, as an integral part of the architecture, offer invaluable clues to a building's history.
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Saving Windows, Saving Money: Evaluating the Energy Performance of Window Retrofit and Replacement
May 30, 2017
A report produced by the Preservation Green Lab, a project of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, offers insight for homeowners weighing the financial and energy tradeoffs between replacing or repairing older, less efficient windows.
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Keeping The Light On In New Dungeness, Washington
May 18, 2017
Punctuating the end of a five-mile ribbon of sand and driftwood at the entrance to Puget Sound, New Dungeness has served as an essential beacon for sea captains traversing the Strait of Juan de Fuca for more than 150 years.
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Italy is giving away dozens of historic buildings away for free (but there’s one catch)
May 17, 2017
From ancient castles, monasteries, convents and towers to old farmhouses, schools and inns, 103 of Italy’s historic buildings are being given away for free with one requirement.
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