Frank Lloyd Wright Lecture Series Starts Soon
The Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research is hosting a five-part lecture series on Frank Lloyd Wright starting on Tuesday February 14th. The lecture series includes a virtual attendee option and you have choices for start time: midday or evening.
Image by Pom taken 2019. Shared under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Can you identify the house in the image above? It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and constructed from 1919 to 1921. We’ve shared the answer, details and a link for more information at the end of this post.
The Cranbrook lecture series has five weekly topics:
Week One :: Adaptation, Invention, and Imagination, 1867-1909
Week Two :: Experiments and Failures, 1909-1931
Week Three :: Wright’s Institutions, Wright as Institution, 1931-1959
Week Four :: The Small House Problem and Suburbia, 1931-1959
Week Five :: Staying Power and the Cult of Wright, 1959-Present
Each lecture will be 75 minutes featuring images to explore a specific aspect of Wright’s career. The speaker will be the Center’s curator, Kevin Adkisson. This is the sixth presentation on the Center’s History of American Architecture lecture series.
Professionals seeking to meet their mandatory annual continuing education requirements can earn one learning unit for each lecture though the details from Cranbrook note the CE credits must be self reported.
There’s a fee to attend the series though it works out to a tiny amount per hour when compared to the research you’d have to conduct to find this information and get it organized into a series on your own. We think it will be worth the investment and have purchased a ticket.
Use the button below to visit the registration page for the event. You’ll be able to find much more detail, including a bio for the speaker.
This will be the first time we’ve heard/seen Kevin Adkisson speak and we’re looking forward to it. He formerly worked at Robert A.M. Stern Architects in New York as a research and writing associate. While at RAMSA he assisted in image research for Paradise Planned - easily the heaviest and most voluminous book in our library. He did a fantastic job with that title so we expect great images and detail from this lecture series as well.
We invite you to join our learning community through the form below for more opportunities like this lecture series and our own education about homes and places. We’d be delighted to be in touch with you and learn what’s of interest to you.
Image Above
Did you know or guess the name of the house in the image above? It’s the Hollyhock House commissioned by Aline Barnsdall. It’s FLW’s first commission in Los Angeles. It was recognized as a Historic-Culture Monument by Los Angeles in 1963, listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, designated as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of Interior in 2007 and inscribed as the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in Los Angeles in 2019.
The Barnsdall Art Park Foundation has shared some excellent images of Hollyhock House if you’d like to see more of the house and its details.
Hollyhock House is among a collection of buildings recognized as UNESCO’s first modern architecture designation in the United States. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It’s work includes recognizing and protecting sites of significant cultural importance around the world. You can find more properties on UNESCO’s World Heritage list - including those endangered.
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