Weekly Architecture Fix, Vol. 7 | Frank Lloyd Wright
Denver Architecture Foundation Resources:
- We love this DAF podcast about North High School.
- A visual exploration for kids about how buildings stand up.
- Audio Tours teaser: A quick read on the Prairie style Rockmount Building in the LoDo Historic District.
- Ongoing: Take in the stunning photographs from our 2019 Y/OUR Denver Photo Exhibit, in partnership with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Read the accompanying Denver Post article by Ray Rinaldi – “One of Denver’s best photo exhibitions right now is totally free — and you can see it in your PJs” and share/discuss with friends and family!
Feature: Frank Lloyd Wright – Resources from the world wide web
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
Watch…
The films below are free via Kanopy.com.
- Ken Burns’ American Lives: Frank Lloyd Wright (2 films)
The films/interviews/clips below are free via Rocky Mountain PBS.
- Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance
- Frank Lloyd Wright (various clips featuring writers, artists, architects, etc., discussing Wright and his work)
- Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo
- Wright Again: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace
- Building Harmonies: Frank Lloyd Wright in the Southwest
- Frank Lloyd Wright Tour – “American System-Built” home on the south side of Milwaukee
- Alistair Interview
- Inside the Dudley Spencer House
- Nebraska Stories: The Sutton House
Want to know the incredible artist behind the stunning photos of Wright’s work? Watch American Masters: Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer’s Journey via Amazon Prime. His life’s work also included collaborations with sculptors Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson, yet his story is largely unknown.
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Listen…
- Get Outta Here!: Why Frank Lloyd Wright still fascinates, 150 years after his birth
- Moonshots: Frank Lloyd Wright
- 99% Invisible: Usonia
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Read…
- Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography by Meryle Secrest
- Frank Lloyd Wright Designs: The Sketches, Plans, and Drawings by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
- The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion, Revised Edition by William Allin Storrer
Also, read about and “Peek Inside 7 Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings”.
For the fiction reader, T.C. Boyle’s The Women is a guilty pleasure.
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For Young Readers…
- I Heart Architecture with Frank Lloyd Wright by Mudpuppy
Community Resources
- In appreciation of one of our city’s legendary philanthropists, whose legacy of giving lives on to this day, read “May Bonfils and Her Lost Belmar Mansion: A Lavish Lakewood Estate Housed a Wealth of Benevolence”.
Image curtesy of Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
