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News and updates from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has collaborated with the Paradise Valley School District to create K-12 curriculum. In this introductory activity of the Frank Lloyd Wright Virtual Classroom, kids can find out how much they have in common with architect Frank Lloyd Wright with “How Like Wright Are You?”
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Apr 10, 2020
Enjoy a month’s worth of drawings that were updated daily during April 2020, featuring iconic architecture reinterpreted as “newspaper buildings” in this series by illustrator Ben Denzer taken from page 3 of the New York Times.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs often paid special attention to the acoustics—how a room or a space sounds. In this activity, we encourage you to try different noises and sounds in your home’s rooms and observe how different rooms absorb or reflect sound.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Apr 1, 2020
In the winter 2020 issue of the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly magazine, 2019–2021 Graphic Design Fellow Rachel Minier created unique icons for each of the eight Frank Lloyd Wright sites included in the 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, a group inscription of Wright sites to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Here she shares some insight into her design process.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Feb 27, 2020
Every house has stories to tell, particularly if the house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Some stories are familiar. Some are even true. Some, true or not, have been lost to time, while others are yet to be told. Steve Sikora, owner of the Malcom Willey House, continues his exploration of the home and its influence on architecture and society.
Steve Sikora | Feb 21, 2020
In celebration of Arizona’s 108th statehood birthday, we’re highlighting Taliesin West’s uniquely Southwestern roots through the “Five C’s” of Arizona.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Feb 14, 2020
Frank Lloyd Wright’s signature style and ongoing influence have long inspired architecture around the globe, and continues to today. In the current issue of the Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly magazine, “UNESCO World Heritage: The 20th Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright,” Foundation President & CEO, Stuart Graff, shares more about this influence.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Feb 11, 2020
Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs exhibit strong geometric forms throughout, and in this activity, we encourage you to find the geometry in a space, and create an abstraction of it using the provided shapes.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Feb 5, 2020
In 1932, Frank Lloyd Wright created the Taliesin Fellowship, a community of apprentices and their families who lived, worked and studied with Wright first at Taliesin in Wisconsin and later also at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona. The program provided a total learning environment integrating all aspects of the apprentices’ lives with the intent of educating responsible, creative, and cultured human beings and building professionals.
Stuart Graff | Jan 31, 2020