Frank Lloyd Wright’s Auldbrass Plantation, Beaufort County, South Carolina - New York Times article about the restoration

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Metcalf Residence 1952 (photo source/ more info)

St. Clement Catholic Church in Center Line, Michigan - 1961

what it looks like now/ what it looks like in color (the roof is blue)

Walter Gropius next to his entry for the Tribune Tower design competition.

“In 1904 brothers Timothy and Michael Riordan worked with Charles Whittlesey, the architect who designed El Tovar on the south rim of Grand Canyon, to build this magnificent 13,000 sq. ft. Arts and Crafts-style dwelling for their two families. The children of Tim and Michael Riordan deeded the house, garage, original furniture, clothing, and household items, and acreage to the Arizona State Parks system in the 1970s to preserve and protect this pristine example of early Arizona history and to serve as an educational center for all ages.” (text from their official facebook - side note: I really miss working here and I recommend clicking on the photo to enlarge the image)

letsbuildahome-fr:

The town of Freudenstadt in western Germany is pictured after a dusting of snow. Picture: Hartmut Reeh/AFP/Getty Images

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famous architects dressed as their buildings

The Monadnock Building is a skyscraper located at 53 West Jackson Boulevard in the south Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The north half of the building was designed by the firm of Burnham & Root and built in 1891. The tallest commercial iron frame building with a load-bearing masonry exterior wall ever constructed, it employed the first portal system of wind bracing in America. Its decorative staircases represent the first structural use of aluminum in building construction. (text source)

"Every piece of architecture should express some moral. If it has moral merit, it deserves the title of ‘architecture’. For me, the professional challenge, whether I am an architect in the rural American South or the American West, is how to avoid becoming so stunned by the power of modern technology and economic affluence that I lose focus on the fact that people and place matter."

Samuel Mockbee

You know you’re an architecture nerd when you are watching a movie & there is a party scene and your first thought is “I know that house!”.  The Palmer House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright can be seen in The Five-Year Engagement.  I know that the Ennis House has been used in multiple movies (most notably Blade Runner) and the Marin Civic Center is used in Gattaca, but are there any other Frank Lloyd Wright structures used in movies?

Update: The Turkel House was used in Sparkle

A blog I wrote briefly discussing Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence on Alden B. Dow’s architecture was recently posted on the Preservation Eastern blogspot.   This is a topic that I’d like to explore further. 

Today I toured the Alden B. Dow Home & Studio and it was better than I had hoped.  The tour lasted an extra hour; the guide provided a wide range of information regarding the home, the furniture, and the Dow family.  Although my preservationist side cringed, I was beyond excited to sit all over the house! I got to sit in an Eames lounge chair and most of the Herman Miller classics.  Another highlight was getting to hop from tile to tile on the pond and watching someone fall into the pond (I’m a jerk, but it was funny/ the rest of the tour he was barefoot).  Pictures really don’t do this house justice - it is 20,000 square feet of an architect being 100% uninhibited in expressing his design aesthetic/personality.  Bummed we didn’t get to take interior photos, but it’s probably for the best, because I’d still be taking pictures.  (I recommend clicking on the photos to see them full size)

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Ulrich Franzen - 1966 - located on the Field Farm property in Williamstown, Massachusetts - This structure’s design was influenced by silos and propellers. 

Next month I’ll be touring the Eliel Saarinen house at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.  While I’m up there I’ll also go see the George Nelson Exhibit at the Cranbrook Art Museum. 

“Saarinen House is Eliel Saarinen’s Art Deco masterwork and the jewel of Cranbrook’s architectural treasures. Designed in the late 1920s and located at the heart of Cranbrook Academy of Art, Saarinen House served as the home and studio of the Finnish-American designer Eliel Saarinen (Cranbrook’s first resident architect and the Academy’s first president and head of the Architecture Department) and Loja Saarinen (the Academy’s first head of the Weaving Department) from 1930 through 1950. The extraordinary interior, now impeccably restored, features the Saarinens’ original furnishings, including Eliel’s delicately-veneered furniture and Loja’s sumptuous textiles, as well as early furniture designs by their son Eero Saarinen.” (text from official house website)