There's been a lot of buzz around the new book, Frank Lloyd Wright's SC Johnson Research Tower, by author Mark Hertzberg. Now you can meet him in person and get your copy signed tomorrow, Sept. 3 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Racine Art Museum store, 441 Main St., during Downtown Racine’s First Fridays event. More details here.
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Wright Chat user "TnGuy" waas kind enough to post a link to an article about Organic architect, Eric Corey Freed. Freed saw his first Frank Lloyd Wright building at age 10, and has been hooked ever since. Read the article here and check out Freed's website here.
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Former Taliesin Apprentice, Earl Nisbet recently shared a wonderful story about his recollection of Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas on what a new home—a "Usonian" home—for Americans should be. It prompted Earl to contemplate and ultimately design a new flag that would wave proudly in "Usonia." Read more after the jump...
This month the generous folks at Pomegranate are giving one winner Mark Hertzberg's new book, Frank Lloyd Wright's SC Johnson Research Tower!
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Check out these amazing recycled cardboard cacti creations made by designer David Stark. See them here.
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Check out this crazy mash-up of architecture and food packaging: The Pasta Chrysler Building. More here.
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Metropolis Magazine recently featured the Frank Lloyd Wright-remodeled interior of Chicago's famed Rookery Building as one of its "Places That Work." Read about it here.
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Wright Chat user, "wrightgeek," posted this link to a bunch of photos of Ministry of Sound Australia's recently released chillout collection, featuring various music tracks and an amazing model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater complete with tiny party-goers. Check it out here.
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Not to be missed! The Center for Architecture Foundation in New York is hosting an event on October 2, 2010 that will offer an insider’s tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Homes, led by Roland Reisley, original Wright house owner and author of Usonia, New York: Building a Community With Frank Lloyd Wright. Get all the details and your tickets here.
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Following up on yesterday's list of failed urban ideas which included Broadacre City, here's a link to blog post discussing the labeling of Frank Lloyd Wright and Henry Ford as the 20th Century's greatest villains due to their association with sprawling, car-centric ideas that spawned Suburbia. Obviusly, anyone even remotely informed knows this to be sensationalism and, at least in Wright's case, false. Read more here.
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A documentary titled “The Last Wright", about Frank Lloyd Wright’s Park Inn Hotel in Mason City, IA, has been nominated for an Emmy Award as best documentary film. Read more about it here.
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The good people at Marmol Radziner are digging through the past to create a new line of furniture called Vienna Way, which recalls built-ins and freestanding furniture by 20th century Viennese American architects R. M. Schindler and Richard Neutra. Read more about it here.
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The Frank Lloyd Wright Newsblog posted a link to an interesting list of "13 Failed Urban Design Ideas", which included the often maligned "Broadacre City" concept by Frank Lloyd Wright (and something called "Boozetown"). Read more about it here.
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Gallery owner Roger Billcliffe has spent the last 30 years of his life saving the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, Scotland's design genius, from fire, rats and the town's own people. Read more here.
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Six Japanese prints, chosen by Frank Lloyd Wright specifically for the Darwin D. Martin family, have been donated to the Martin House Restoration Corp. by grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other relatives of the Martin's. Read about it here.
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PrairieMod reader, Debbie B., sent us a head's up about another J.J. Walser House art glass sighting—this time in an Urban Remains newsletter. Other high-profile Wright architectural items are and have been offered by the salvage company. Until these items are not treated as trophies and instead as integral parts of the buildings they belong to, this issue will persist. More here.
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Move Frank Lloyd Wright's Alice Millard House to Japan? Over blogger Larry Wilson's dead body. Read here about how the threat of moving the famed block house is likely just a PR stunt.
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The new Osborne-Scekic house in Racine, Wisconsin stands out amongst its century-old neighbors, not only for its cubist design, but also for being extrememly "green". Read about it here and check out some photos by Wright in Racine's Mark Hertzberg as well.
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My buddy David D. sent an article about this home and the owners, plus a photo gallery with about 25 pics.
It is worth checking out. For real.
"Even at the start, Anne Davis and Cris Picard followed a major Frank Lloyd Wright principle. They placed the house -- not on the apex of the hill -- but a little lower, tucked into a slope that is covered with switch grass."
"Their home combines the early Prairie and Usonian style."
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