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For years, the Robie House limped along, a shadow of its former self, a sad state of affairs that resulted from neglectful owners or well-meaning stewards who lacked the funds to put the landmark back in order.
Now, though, that $11 million-plus project is finally complete — the house will reopen to visitors Friday — and it reminds us anew why the Robie House is one of Chicago’s, and the world’s, architectural treasures.
— Chicago Tribune
While a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright's 1910 Robie House on the University of Chicago campus used to accompany a feeling of sorrow and a bit of regret, it can now be the pinnacle of any trip to the Windy City. Interior of the Robie House, by Frank Lloyd WrightAn exhaustive restoration of the... View full entry
This week the Los Angeles Police Department released photos of the items that were stolen from the Freeman House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The famed textile block house made for Samuel Freeman was put under the care and maintenance of USC in 1986. Two floor lamps designed by Wright and a... View full entry
Two lamps and a chair designed by the celebrated architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolph Schindler, respectively, have been reported missing. The stolen items were taken from an unmarked warehouse controlled by USC, who owns Wright's Samuel and Harriet Freeman House for which the items were... View full entry
A collection of eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings have been nominated by the United States to the World Heritage List. Submitted by the National Park Service, the nomination will be reviewed by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in July of 2019. Widely considered one of the greatest American... View full entry
“I was like, ‘Yeah, sure it is,’ ” Eckley said. In his 35 years of reclaiming architectural antiques, he said, he’s had several homeowners who mistakenly claimed they lived in a Wright house. And anyway, who would want to gut one? — Star Tribune
Me? I say have at it. Screw that architect.Archinect reported on this house when it hit the market last year: Frank Lloyd Wright designed Olfelt home is now for sale at $1.3M View full entry
The iconic designs of famous architects seen in buildings and furniture is visible through out the practice. Design figures like Ray and Charles Eames, Marcel Brueur, and Zaha Hadid are a few of the many architects that have made an impact in chair design. However, the architect infamously known... View full entry
Out of the 1,171 architectural designs that Frank Lloyd Wright created in his lifetime, around 660 of them remained unbuilt. Using advanced visualization techniques, architect David Romero brings Wright's unbuilt designs one step closer to reality in a series of striking, computer-generated... View full entry
After over 20 years of restoration, a legendary Frank Lloyd Wrightresidence in Buffalo, NY has finally opened its doors to public visitors. Sitting inside the Martin House complex, the Barton House's $2-million upgrade is the final architectural piece of the estate to be restored, completing the... View full entry
Phoenix, Arizona–based developer Zach Rawling bought a Frank Lloyd Wright–designed house for $2.3 million in 2012, when its previous owner wanted to demolish the landmark. In 2017, Rawlings donated the David and Gladys Wright House to the Taliesin West School of Architecture, but in June of this year, Rawlings and Aaron Betsky, the architecture school dean, announced in a joint statement that the donation was being revoked due to fundraising concerns. — artforum.com
Image via davidwrighthouse.org.In their joint statement, Aaron Betsky and Zach Rawling wrote: The relationship between the School and the House is formally manifested in the David Wright House Collaborative Fund, a supporting organization of the Arizona Community Foundation. The principal focus of... View full entry
Located in Los Feliz, the 5,500-square-foot house was built from 27,000 concrete blocks, with some blocks featuring intricate geometric patterns. [...] Ron Burkle purchased the home from the nonprofit Ennis House Foundation for $4.5 million in 2011, property records show. After purchasing, he then restored it, adding an extra $10 million to improve the home after it had suffered major damage from a previous earthquake and heavy rains. — The Real Deal
Virtual tours of Frank Lloyd Wright's properties will be available online through Leica Geosystems partnership with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. With technology services from Multivista and Matterport, detailed experiences of the architect's iconic works can be explored from exterior... View full entry
Cranbrook, known worldwide as an architectural set piece, is getting a new gem in its diadem — a Frank Lloyd Wright house.
The house was built in 1950 by Sara and Melvyn Maxwell Smith. The donation came from the Towbes Foundation.
“The Smith family always said they didn’t want this to just pass to another set of homeowners,” said Gregory Wittkopp, director of the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. “The phrase they used was they wanted it to be ‘an educational resource.’ ”
— The Detroit News
The donation by the Towbes Foundation was a gift "that other design schools would kill for," The Detroit News reports and tells the legendary tale of A. Alfred Taubman donating a substantial portion of the windows to the cash-strapped Smith family to get the FLW-designed house finished before... View full entry
Why focus on Wright, American architecture’s equivalent of Abraham Lincoln, the giant who casts a shadow over his field big enough to blot out smaller and underrepresented figures?
[...] Because the architect’s brilliant if forbidding Southern California houses, the most important of which were designed in a burst of creative energy during the first few months of 1923, remain mysterious, their meaning and inspiration as opaque as their heavy, richly patterned concrete-block facades.
— latimes.com
Christopher Hawthorne's documentary, “That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles”, focuses on aspects of the infamous architect's work which remain enigmatic. Filming inside eight Wright buildings, the project interviews around 20 people to present new insights around these... View full entry
Wilbert R. Hasbrouck, a pioneering Chicago preservation architect who breathed new life into buildings designed by some of the city’s renowned architects and co-owned a beloved architectural bookstore, died Saturday at a care facility in suburban Norridge.
A longtime Chicago resident, Hasbrouck was 86. The cause of death was complications from Parkinson’s disease, said his son Charles, a director at the Chicago architectural firm of bKL.
— chicagotribune.com
Over a 40 year career, Hasbrouck renovated buildings such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Dana-Thomas House in Springfield, William Le Baron Jenney's Manhattan Building skyscraper, and Louis Sullivan's Peoples Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids, along with several of Chicago’s important 19th-century... View full entry
Building owner Mick Ruis had set a Jan. 10 deadline for preservation groups to raise $1.7 million in cash to buy the building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Local business leaders, the Montana Preservation Alliance and the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy all were working toward a deal that would have spared the building [...] It is the first viable Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building to be lost in more than 40 years. — Daily InterLake
In a frustrating turn of events, Frank Lloyd Wright's Lockridge Medical Clinic — which was completed after his death in 1959 — in Whitefish, Montana was demolished overnight. The building's current owner Mick Ruis moved up his demolition plans and refused to give more time to preservation... View full entry
