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Each fall the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy gathers leading scholars, experts and homeowners to make educational presentations on various facets of Wright’s work at our annual conference. Most presentations and panels are recorded and made available to purchase on DVD for continued educational research. Additional lectures and panels organized by the Conservancy may be held throughout the year as part of our mission to educate the public on the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Wisconsin: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Laboratory
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
September 30 – October 4, 2015
Panel: Taliesin: Preserving the Buildings
Sidney Robinson, moderator
Jim Erickson
Ryan Hewson
Panel: Taliesin Viewscape Conservation
Sandra Shane-DuBow, moderator
Dave Clutter
Mike Strigel
Gary Zimmer
Taliesin Diary, 1942
Sarah Leavitt
Understanding Wright by Understanding Wright’s Work in Racine
Jonathan Lipman
Wingspread: Unpacking Fallingwater / Operationalizing Usonia
Michael Desmond
The Architecture of Research (Johnson Wax)
Brigid Boyle
An American Home by Frank Lloyd Wright (American System-Built Homes)
Mike Lilek
Panel: Saving the A.D. German Warehouse
Ron Scherubel, moderator
Lon Arbegust
Randy Henning
Peter Rott
Panel: Madison’s Lamp House
Jack Holzhueter, moderator
Michael Bridgeman
Nan Fey
Ledell Zellers
Penwern: Wright on Delavan Lake
Mark Hertzberg
Wright’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church: The Byzantine Tradition and Modern Architecture
Joseph Siry
The Architecture of Nature: Frank Lloyd Wright – A Future for Structure, Shelter and Space
Anthony Puttnam
Wright’s Language for Unusual Finishes
Anthony Kartsonas
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Past, Present, Future: The Conservancy at 25
Phoenix, Arizona
October 29 – November 2, 2014
Saving the David and Gladys Wright House: A Look Back
Will Bruder, FAIA
Scott Jarson
Brendan Mahoney
Jim McPherson
Kevin Weight
Preservation in Phoenix and Statewide: The Midcentury Modern Challenge
Jim Garrison
Alison King
Don Ryden
Wright in Arizona: Before and After the David and Gladys Wright House
Neil Levine
Advocacy: How and Why It Works
Tom Schmidt
John Thorpe, AIA
Kim Knox
Lon Arbegust
Key Works of Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright: The World Heritage Nomination
Lynda Waggoner
Looking to the Future: The Conservancy and the Preservation of Modern Architecture
Grady Gammage Jr.
T. Gunny Harboe, FAIA
Vince Michael
The Conservancy: It All Began in Buffalo…
Jack Quinan
Building a Wright House: A Conversation with Original Wright Homeowners
Roland Reisley
Susan Jacobs Lockhart
Living with Wright: The Second Generation and Beyond
Penny Ablin
Chuck Henderson
John Shyer
Tom Wright
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Wright on the Inside
Grand Rapids, Michigan
October 16 – 20, 2013
The Great Cleanup: Inventing the Coordinated Interior
Richard Guy Wilson
Spaces of Eloquence: Taliesin and Taliesin West
Margo Stipe
Preserving Wright Interiors: Case Studies of Frank Lloyd Wright Furniture and Fabrics 1904-1956
Pamela Kirschner
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Period Gesamtkunstwerk: The Ideal and the Reality
Jack Quinan
Constructing Interiors from Unbuilt Designs: American System-Built Homes Model B-1 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Virginia Terry Boyd
Will The Real Aline Barnsdall House Please Stand Up: Rediscovering Hollyhock House Interiors
Jeffrey Herr
Eye Music: Taliesin Perforated Board Designs
Palli Davis Holubar
Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright
Julie Sloan
Saving the David Wright House
Neil Levine
Scott Jarson
Larry Woodin
Janet Halstead
From the Dana-Thomas House to the Modern House Interior
Mike Jackson, FAIA
Abstract Patterns: Screens and Murals by Eugene Masselink
Scott Perkins
The First Completed Project Designed through the Taliesin Fellowship: Alden B Dow’s “The Stein House” (1933)
Tawny Ryan Nelb
Joan Lupton
The Renewing of a Vision: The Meyer May House
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Midwest Modern
Mason City, Iowa
October 10 – 14, 2012
The Griffins, Canberra, the Parliament House Competition and their Trip to Europe (1914)
David Van Zanten
Organizational and Fund-raising Challenges of the Historic Park Inn restoration
Ann MacGregor
Jean Marinos
The Restoration of the Historic Park Inn and City National Bank
Randall Cram, AIA
The Importance of the Historic Park Inn and City National Bank
Jonathan Lipman
Robert McCoy
The Stockman House—Its Significance
Rock Crest/Rock Glen—An Introduction to Walter Burley Griffin’s Ideas About Architecture, Landscape and Planning
Paul Kruty
The Builder’s Wright—Marshall Erdman, Wrightification, and Regional Modernism in Madison, Wisconsin, 1945-1965
Anna Andrzejewski
Wright’s Influence through Home Service Magazines
Paula Mohr
James Dennis
Organic Ornamentation and Flamboyant Ornateness— Frank Lloyd Wright Versus Thomas Hart Benton, A Midwest Dichotomy
A Tale of Two Progressive Banks for Winona by Purcell & Elmslie
Jennifer Komar Olivarez
The Midwestern Modernity of Francis Barry Byrne
Vincent Michael
Gentleman Farmer—Frank Lloyd Wright and Lowell Walter in Iowa, 1948
Daniel Naegele
Frank Lloyd Wright and his Clients—Paul and Ida Trier
John Trier
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Frank Lloyd Wright and the East Coast
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 21 – 25, 2011
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Steel Cathedral Project and Beth Sholom Synagogue
Joseph Siry
Architecture for Work: Wright and the PSFS Building
Grace Ong-Yan
No Place for Personality: Antonin and Noémi Raymond in Pennsylvania and New York, 1938-1949
William Whitaker
Wright on Exhibit, 1894-1959
Kathryn Smith
Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Frank Lloyd Wright: How to Make Two Enemies, Friends
Helen Searing
Pointed in the Right Direction: Lewis Mumford’s Criticism of Frank Lloyd Wright
Robert Wojtowicz
Neil Levine
David De Long
Wright and the East Coast Architectural Press
Richard Cleary
A Player on the New York Stage
Jane King Hession
A Masterful Marketer
Debra Pickrel