13 stunning capitol buildings across the U.S.
June 29, 2017
Not all capitol buildings are white, domed, and marbled.
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Preservation Points
From Around the Web: Preservation, Art, Architecture, and History.
Do We Need to Rebuild Historic Sites Ruined by Terrorism?
June 29, 2017
Some argue for leaving the buildings in rubble as a reminder of the destruction.
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Solving Salk’s Mystery
June 29, 2017
How scientists lifted the shadow from Louis Kahn's most famous building.
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With Chemistry and Care, Conservators Keep Masterpieces Looking Their Best
June 27, 2017
Behind the scenes at major art museums, conservators are hard at work, keeping masterpieces looking their best. Their methods are meticulous — and sometimes surprising.
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In Singapore, the Preservation Debate Comes Down to a Single House
June 23, 2017
The question of whether to demolish the home of the city-state’s former leader raises questions in a country that paves over the past.
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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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