How Frank Lloyd Wright’s Structure Developed Over 70 Years and Modified America

In the brand new Archi­tec­tur­al Digest video above, Michael Wyet­zn­er talks a few truthful few construct­ings we’ve fea­tured over time right here on Open Cul­ture: the Impe­r­i­al Resort, the Ennis Home, Tal­iesin, Falling­wa­ter. These are all, in fact, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, who nonetheless stands because the embod­i­ment of Amer­i­can archi­tec­ture greater than…

How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulled Off Their Spectacular Stunts Throughout Silent Movie’s Golden Age

It may be tempt­ing to view the field workplace’s dom­i­na­tion by visu­al-effects-laden Hol­ly­wooden spec­ta­cle as a current phe­nom­e­non. And certainly, there have been peri­ods dur­ing which that was­n’t the case: the “New Hol­ly­wooden” that started within the late 9­teen six­ties, as an illustration, when the previous stu­dio sys­tem hand­ed the reins to inven­tive younger weapons…

A Meditative Tour of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Masterpiece

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling­wa­ter is a “home muse­um,” first designed as a res­i­dence, and now open to the pub­lic. Actually, because the insti­tu­tion’s direc­tor Justin Gun­ther explains in the Open House video above, it’s “the primary home of the mod­ern transfer­ment to open as a pub­lic web site,” hav­ing begun supply­ing excursions in 1964. The…

A Tour of the Ultimate Dwelling Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright: The Round Solar Home

Some remem­ber the 9­teen-nineties in Amer­i­ca because the sec­ond com­ing of the 9­teen-fifties. What­ev­er holes one can poke in that his­tor­i­cal fram­ing, it does really feel unusual­ly plau­si­ble inside Frank Lloyd Wright’s Cir­cu­lar Solar Home. Although not actu­al­ly constructed till 1967, it was com­mis­sioned from Wright by ship­ping magazine­nate Nor­man Lykes in 1959, the final…

How Frank Lloyd Wright Turned Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction

Frank Lloyd Wright is not like­ly to be dis­positioned because the arche­kind of the genius archi­tect any­time quickly, a minimum of in Amer­i­ca, however even he needed to begin some­the place. At 9 years previous, as archi­tec­ture YouTu­ber Stew­artwork Hicks explains in the video above, Wright acquired a set of blocks from his moth­er, who…

Take a Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis Home, the Mansion That Has Appeared in Blade Runner, Twin Peaks & Numerous Hollywood Movies

There are various of us who’d benefit from the oppor­tu­ni­ty to stay in a home that seems in Blade Run­ner; there are relatively few of us who would val­ue that oppor­tu­ni­ty at $23 mil­lion, the ask­ing value giv­en in the 2019 Archi­tec­tur­al Digest video on Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1924 Ennis Home above. But even past…

Frank Lloyd Wright Thought About Making the Guggenheim Museum Pink

Picture by way of The Frank Lloyd Wright Foun­da­tion Archives Seen in the present day, the Solomon R. Guggen­heim Muse­um, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, appears to occu­py sev­er­al time peri­ods without delay, look­ing each mod­ern and a few­how historic. The lat­ter qual­i­ty positive­ly has to do with its brilliant white col­or, which we asso­ciate…