Architecture school started by Frank Lloyd Wright to close

January 28, 2020 2:14 pm Leave a comment

Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Nov. 23, 2018. School officials announced on Tuesday that the School of Architecture at Taliesin, which consists of Wright properties in Wisconsin and Arizona, will close down in June. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman)

The architecture school that the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright started nearly 90 years ago is closing, officials announced Tuesday.

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Frank Lloyd Wright warehouse closer to restoration

November 4, 2019 6:00 am Leave a comment

The A.D. German Warehouse stands in Richland Center on Oct. 16. The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, a native of Richland Center. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

There are no restrooms, running water or heating or air-conditioning systems. There is a functioning freight elevator, but it's powered by hand, thanks to a series of ropes and pulleys.

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Wright-designed home sold for nearly $1.7M

October 17, 2019 10:22 am Leave a comment

The Norman Lykes House, the final house the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed before he died, is seen here on Tuesday in Phoenix. Heritage Auctions sold the property at an auction Wednesday for nearly $1.7 million. (AP Photos/Matt York)

An Arizona house that was the last house architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed before his death was sold on Wednesday for nearly $1.7 million.

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Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Phoenix home up for auction

September 20, 2019 3:14 pm Leave a comment

This undated photo provided by Heritage Auctions in September 2019 shows a home in Phoenix designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The Norman Lykes House will be up for auction in October 2019. Wright designed the home, nicknamed the "Circular Sun House" before his death in 1959. (Heritage Auctions via AP)

An Arizona home that architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed during the last year of his life is going on the auction block.

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A new look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s textiles, home goods

September 11, 2019 2:36 pm Leave a comment

A photo from The Metropolitan Museum of Art showing the Frank Lloyd Wright Room in museum's The American Wing in New York. The room was originally the living room of the summer residence of Frances W. Little and was designed and built between 1912 and 1914 in Wayzata, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. (Metropolitan Museum of Art via AP)

A small but noteworthy exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores a little-known facet of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's work: his line of wallpapers, printed and woven textiles, and other home goods designed for the public.

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8 Frank Lloyd Wright buildings added to World Heritage list

July 8, 2019 9:52 am Leave a comment

The library of the Taliesin house in Spring Green. (AP Photo/Michelle Johnson, File)

The work of the famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was recognized on Sunday as eight of his buildings, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Los Angeles' Hollyhock House and the Unity Temple in suburban Chicago, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage list.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin theater to be restored

October 8, 2018 9:30 am Leave a comment

Frank Lloyd Wright's 600-acre home, called Taliesin, seen in Spring Green in 2004.

A theater at Frank Lloyd Wright's 800-acre Taliesin estate in Wisconsin will undergo an $867,000, two-year restoration.

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New Frank Lloyd Wright trail features 13 Illinois sites

May 14, 2018 9:02 am Leave a comment

The Illinois Office of Tourism has established a new self-guided architectural tour that's dedicated to the work of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Frank Lloyd Wright, born 150 years ago, still fascinates

June 9, 2017 10:44 am Leave a comment

Architect Frank Lloyd Wright stands in his studio at his home in Spring Green on Aug. 16, 1938. (AP File Photo)

It's been 150 years since the birth of America's best-known architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. But his innovative designs continue to fascinate the public, from New York's Guggenheim museum, where the circular building itself is a sculptural work of art, to the Fallingwater house built over a waterfall in the Pennsylvania woods, to his modernist home on the Wisconsin prairie, Taliesin, which served as a laboratory for his ideas.

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