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News and updates from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
In 1949 the president of Phoenix’s Southwest Christian Seminary commissioned Wright to design a Classical University.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Feb 4, 2017
Though Wright conceived of Community Christian Church as “the church of the future,” financial considerations, wartime material shortages, and restrictive building codes forced him to abandon many of his original visions for the space.
Wright designed Blue Sky Mausoleum at the request of Darwin D. Martin, the secretary of the Larkin Soap Company (Wright’s first public commission) and Wright’s longtime friend.
Each element of Wright’s only synagogue was carefully designed with a contemporary approach to Jewish faith, history and religious practice.
Wright’s design for the structure he affectionately termed “a little St. Sophia” is defined by the symbols of the Greek Orthodox faith (it is essentially a Greek cross inscribed in a circle), but it is a marked departure from traditional Byzantine church architecture.
