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David Wright House Saved - Preservation Success
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 The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy has facilitated the purchase of the David and Gladys Wright House in Phoenix, Arizona, through an LLC owned by an anonymous benefactor. The transaction closed on December 20 for an undisclosed price. The property will be transferred to an Arizona not-for-profit organization
responsible for the restoration, maintenance and operation of the David Wright House. |
| posted on Dec. 20, 2012 |
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BUILDING CONSERVANCY HELPS SECURE COLLECTION OF WRIGHT MATERIALS AT AUCTION
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 Chicago, Illinois --Working in close cooperation, The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy have ensured the purchase at auction of a major collection of photographs and drawings of Wright buildings, thereby preserving them as a collection and returning them to their rightful home in the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Now owned by the Foundation after the $40,000 winning bid was placed on behalf of the Foundation by Conservancy Vice President Larry Woodin, the extensive body of materials includes approximately 600 original photographs of buildings, more than 10 original drawings, and approximately 300 photographs of drawings and plans. The documents were provided by Wright to the architectural historian Henry Russell Hitchcock when Hitchcock was preparing the book In the Nature of Materials: the Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1898-1941. Published in 1942, this book was the first major study of the architect's work.
The Conservancy, whose mission is to facilitate the preservation and maintenance of the remaining structures designed by Wright, also advocates for a fuller understanding of his architectural legacy as a whole. The Conservancy and the Foundation created a task force to raise adequate funds and to alert potentially interested parties of the organizations’ joint goal to purchase the collection for the Foundation’s Archives which are housed at Taliesin West in Scottsdale. The mission of the Foundation is to encourage innovative thinking about the relationships between architecture and design and the natural environment, and preserve the works, ideas and innovative spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Foundation's ability to raise the necessary funds in an extremely short period of time allowed the collection to remain intact and be accessible to scholars, restoration architects, Wright building owners and students of architecture and design.
Harvard Professor and Wright expert Neil Levine, who is also a member of the Conservancy’s board of directors, stated: “The drawings, either by Wright himself or his assistants, are of inestimable value to scholars and professionals in the field. In a number of cases, these are the only plans that have survived. The approximately 600 photographs are equally unique… Offering canonic images of Wright’s buildings from all phases of his nearly 70-year career, these photographs provide an overview of some of the most important architectural photography of the first half of the twentieth century.”
The Conservancy’s advocacy team works closely with the archivists at Taliesin and frequently refers Wright homeowners and restoration architects to the Wright Archives for information vital to the appropriate maintenance and restoration of specific Wright houses or buildings — which leads ultimately to their long-term preservation. |
| posted by Tom Wadlow on Feb. 18, 2010 |
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2007 Conference DVDs and new podcast now available
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 The 5-disk DVD set of coverage of the 2007 Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy's annual conference has been completed and is now being shipped. Also, available now is a new free podcast of segments of selected conference talks and presentations. |
| posted by FLWBC on Feb. 27, 2008 |
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Historic Ennis-Brown House Yellow-tagged due to Recent Rainstorms
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Los Angeles, CA—March 3, 2005—The legendary architect's 1924 concrete block masterpiece which has been used as a location in several Hollywood films including "Blade Runner", was red tagged by City of Los Angeles inspectors Saturday, March 5th, due to a failing retaining wall caused by Southern California's recent rainstorms. The structure has currently been upgraded to a yellow tag condition meaning it can be reoccupied in limited areas.
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| posted on Mar. 3, 2005 |
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Carr House Obituary/Loss Announcement
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With great regret and considerable outrage, the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy must announce the demolition of the W.S. Carr House, built in 1916 in Grand Beach, Michigan. This represents the first loss of a Wright designed building in nearly 35 years and the first since the Conservancy was founded.
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| posted on Nov. 30, 1999 |
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