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One of Frank Lloyd Wright's (more) famous buildings, the @visit_scj research tower. Opening in 1950, it rises more than 150 feet into the air and is 40 feet square. Yet at ground level, it’s supported by a base only 13 feet across at its narrowest point. Alternating square floors and round mezzanine levels make up the interior, and are supported by the “taproot” core, which also contains the building’s elevator, stairway and restrooms. The core extends 54 feet into the ground, providing stability like the roots of a tall tree. Wright called his design a “helio-lab,” or sun-lighted laboratory. At the building’s dedication, he said he hoped it would be a “flower among the weeds” of typical, “drab” structures built for business.

Huge thank you to @javamagazine @sentinery and @jeffleechabot for covering my project to photograph all remaining Frank Lloyd Wright designs around the world AND for making this happen during these “odd” times. Big thanks to @wrighttaliesin for the shooting location. I’m looking forward to adding 11 more designs in 2020. Let’s do this! 🤘🙏 Go see @javamagazine for the story and give them a follow. Sign up for my upcoming newsletter/announcements is in my bio.

Thought I would kick off with what else...Frank Lloyd Wright’s @unescoworldheritage sites. Swipe to see them all. The collection of buildings, formally known as “The 20th Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright”, span 50 years of Wright’s influential career, and marks the first modern architecture designation in the United States on the world heritage list. They are: Fallingwater, 1935🔺Taliesin West, 1937🔺Guggenheim, 1956🔺Hollyhock, 1917🔺Taliesin, 1925🔺Unity Temple, 1904🔺Robie, 1906🔺Jacobs House I, 1936.

What the heck is this? This is called the moon gate at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West. What was it designed for? Well, come find out for yourself. Yahooooo. @wrighttaliesin will be (safely) welcoming back the public for tours on October 15. They have a NEW self-guided audio tour as well as the famous “Insights Tour” with fewer people per group. Masks are required for all. Come support the arts and this @UNESCO Arizona gem!

“I knew you could do it, but I had no idea you could do it this well.” Solomon R. Guggenheim to Frank Lloyd Wright. What is your favorite part of the @guggenheim?

In 1958, Paul and Helen Olfelt, commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a house in St. Louis Park, MN. Wright called it “a little nest” Original construction was under the guidance of John H. Howe and occasional supervision by Vernon Knudson, was completed in 1960 by Taliesin Associated Architects. The Olfelts kept the house in their possession for nearly six decades. In April 2018 the house was sold to new owners who have made renovations. I got the privilege of photographing the renovation progress and adding this design to my project this summer. Minus the furnishings and exterior landscaping it looked to be nearly done. Quick thing...If you’re interested in announcements/seasonal newsletter of my photography journey, I have the sign up in my bio! 👍

It’s Fall Y’all. We are closer to 2021 everyday! 🤦‍♂️ Lets do this! 🤘 Keep in touch: Newsletter sign up in bio!

A peek inside the Peter & Emma Beachy Home in Oak Park, Illinois. Designed/remodeled by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1906. Emma, the daughter of Peter Fahrney, a successful doctor and real-estate investor in Chicago, commissioned Wright to renovate a Gothic cottage for her children and second husband, Peter A. Beachy. 🟥 I like to walk around, chat with the owners and get a tour of the design before any camera equipment comes out. Especially in these, at the time, unfamiliar ”Prairie” homes of Wrights. I remember stopping for awhile to checkout this built in near the front entrance. It’s like a small piece of art, inside a larger piece of art! I think I took 3 or 4 different compositions of it. I still find it beautiful and mesmerizing. Newsletter sign up in bio!

Frank Lloyd Wright has some incredible house designs, he also has some incredible furniture and lamp designs. This is a large version of the Taliesin II pendant lamp. Here is the research I’ve come up with...When Wright converted the original gymnasium of his Hillside Home School II (1902) at Taliesin into a theater in 1933, he designed lighting pendants made up of square boxes and plywood shields to be suspended from the tall ceiling. These fixtures were a lighting innovation, providing comfortable indirect lighting without the use of glass or shades. In 1952, when the theater was rebuilt following a fire, Wright modified the design of the original fixtures for use in his dining room, attaching them to the oak beams overhead. He found their soft indirect light so pleasing that he designed a standing floor lamp version of the same design fabricated for use in his own home, Taliesin. I gotta get one of these in my life! 🤘🙏

Just watched an awesome “Wright Virtual Visit” from the Laurent and Samara house so I thought I would post an image I took of the Laurent House back in 2019. I haven’t photographed Samara yet! 🙏 So in 1948 Kenneth Laurent, a disabled World War II veteran and his wife Phyllis commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home for them. It’s the only building that Wright created specifically for a client with a physical disability. It’s design was decades ahead of the American Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility guidelines and was over 90% compliant when later inspected. Wright and the Laurent’s had many conversations about designing the house with a wheelchair in mind, and (maybe surprisingly) Wright was very accommodating to them. So in this photograph, I wanted to give you a sense of that height using Mr. Laurent’s wheelchair as a guide. This, I was told, was also Mr. Laurent’s favorite spot in the house and he would come here daily to take in the view. I highly recommend the Wright Virtual Visits and you can view them all here: www.savewright.org/wvv

Day dreaming in 3...2...1! The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over 50 km (31 mi) to the Roman colony of Nemausus (Nîmes). It crosses the river Gardon near the town of Vers-Pont-du-Gard in southern France. The Pont du Gard is the highest of all Roman aqueduct bridges, and one of the best preserved. It was added to @unescoworldheritage list in 1985 because of its historical importance.

This is cool! Frank Lloyd Wright’s @price_tower is lit up for Bartlesville Pride Day! Image courtesy of Price Connors/Bernie Meadows who also sponsored the display!