Earlier this year, I reported on Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell’s campaign to launch “Never Built: Los Angeles,” a show about an L.A. metropolis that never was — from an offshore Santa Monica freeway to Frank Lloyd Wright’s imagined downtown master plan. After months of fundraising, the exhibition opened this week at the city’s A+D Museum and runs through October 13, 2013. I spoke to Goldin and Lubell about putting it together. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
By hnn
Paolo Bulletti has a dream. The Italian architect wants to transport a house built by the distinguished U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright from its current site in New Jersey to the hills of Fiesole, near Florence….
Everyone acknowledges that the timing is poor. The economic situation in Italy means public and private funds are in short supply and, with the general election campaign under way, no mayor would lend his name to such an extravagant project.
Nonetheless, Fulvio Irace, a professor of history at Milan Polytechnic, thinks that public institutions in Florence or Fiesole or even Venice should consider buying the house….
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University
By hnn
PHOENIX — The buildings stretch from 11th Avenue to 52nd Street and include five homes and one church all designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and all are part of a new plan by the Phoenix Historic Preservation Commission.
The proposed plan, which would cost $1.2 million, was created after a home Wright designed for his son in the Arcadia area narrowly escaped demolition. A developer bought the land and planned to tear down the 2,500 square foot concrete house and build two new houses in its place….
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University
By hnn
PHOENIX — The buildings stretch from 11th Avenue to 52nd Street and include five homes and one church all designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and all are part of a new plan by the Phoenix Historic Preservation Commission.
The proposed plan, which would cost $1.2 million, was created after a home Wright designed for his son in the Arcadia area narrowly escaped demolition. A developer bought the land and planned to tear down the 2,500 square foot concrete house and build two new houses in its place….
…read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at History News Network – George Mason University
