Gwendolyn Wright (often seen on PBS's History Detectives show) will be giving a lecture tonight at 7PM at the Sheldon Museum of Art's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium at 12th and R sts. on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln city campus. Wright's lecture, is titled "Frank Lloyd Wright's Progressive Suburbia." Read more after the jump...
As described in a PR release:
"Frank Lloyd Wright has been praised and blamed for endorsing the American suburban ideal of distinctive single-family houses in bucolic landscapes. In fact, he advocated compact residential settlements throughout his career, although only a few were even partially realized. The most innovative design was a Model Suburb on the outskirts of Chicago for a 1913 competition. Wright went beyond the program to propose mixed incomes (including apartments near mass transit for single men and women) and a mixed-use greensward woven through the center (including a women's club, a kindergarten, a library and a cinema) to bring people together. This little known proposal situates Wright within Chicago's progressive reform movement of the time, even as it offers precedents for contemporary architecture's interest in landscape urbanism, community facilities, density and transit-based suburbs."
The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will immediately follow the lecture in Sheldon's Great Hall. For more info, follow the link.
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