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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Buffalo, New York & Online
October 13 – 17, 2021
Frank Lloyd Wright in Western New York
Patrick J. Mahoney, AIA
Curating Change: Revisiting the House Museums of Frank Lloyd Wright
Dr. Ashley Paine
Flow: Interpreting the Zimmerman and Kalil Houses
Ann Bible
A Spirited and Fresh Little Building: Fallingwater’s Visitor Center at 40
Scott W. Perkins
Graycliff: Past and Present
Patrick J. Mahoney, AIA
Graycliff Visitor Center: A Regional Destination Set Within a Historic Landscape
Basar Girit
Matthew Meier
The Competition for the Design of a Visitor Center for the Darwin D. Martin House
Jack Quinan
FLW Superhosts Discuss Opening Their Homes to Tours
Chuck Henderson
Roland Reisley
John Shyer
Norm Silk and Dale Morgan
Keynote Address
Toshiko Mori
Online
November 11 – 14, 2020
Keynote: Preserving Wright in a Time of Change
Justin Gunther, Director, Fallingwater
Wright Sites x PechaKucha vol. 2
Marta Wojcik, Westcott House
Libby Garrison, Marin County Civic Center
Amanda Hu, David & Gladys Wright House
Queena Ko, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Doug LaBrecque, Meyer House
Cat Lenhart, Carolyn and Harold Price, Jr. House
Mary Beth Peterson, Laurent House
Hannah Shaw, Hollyhock House
Steve Sikora, Willey House
Roundtable: The Future of the Wright Public Site
Mary Roberts, Martin House
Jill Greenwood, Weltzheimer/Johnson House
Libby Jordan, Rosenbaum House
Mike Lilek, Burnham Block
Carrie Rodamaker, Taliesin Preservation
Roundtable & Tour: Prairie Houses for the 21st Century
Douglas Gilbert, architect
Amy & Eric Bauer, Baker House
John Eifler, Dorothy and William Ross House
Andrea Kayne and Andy Mead, Laura Gale House
Roundtable & Tour: Partners in Advocacy: Saving Booth Cottage
Barbara Gordon, Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
Karen Ettelson, Glencoe Historical Society
Phil Kiraly, Village of Glencoe
Carmen Korleski, TAWANI Foundation and Emil Bach House
Lisa Sheppard, Glencoe Park District
Peter Van Vechten, Glencoe Historic Preservation Commission
Roundtable & Tours: Last Resorts: Relocation of Wright Structures
Tim Quigley, architect
Kim Knox, Gordon House
Tom Papinchak, Polymath Park
Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino, former owners of Bachman-Wilson House
Ashley Wilson, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Pope-Leighey House
Roundtable & Tours: Preserving Wright’s Usonian Automatics
Larry Woodin, Tracy House
Safina Uberoi, Tonkens House
Norm Morgan and Dale Silk, Turkel House
Roundtable & Tours: Preserving Wright in Japan
Jane King Hession, writer & architectural historian
Yutaka Mizukami, University of Hyogo
Koichi Mori and Karen Severns, Tokyo-based Wright experts, KiSMet Productions
Los Angeles, California
October 2 – 6, 2019
Wright’s Influence on John Lautner
Frank Escher and Louis Wiehle
Cheap and Thin: Post-WWII Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright
Raymond Neutra
Wright, Schindler, (Wright), Neutra
Richard Longstreth
Wright’s Materials and Structure Around the Pacific Rim, 1913-23
Kathryn Smith
Postwar Wright in Los Angeles
Tim Quigley
Panel: Conserving Wright Buildings in L.A.
Trudi Sandmeier, Jeffrey Chusid, Peyton Hall, Jeffrey Herr
The Long Shadow of Wright in Los Angeles
Ken Breisch
Picture, Promote, Preserve: Architectural Photography and Wright’s L.A. Legacy
Emily Bills
Madison, Wisconsin
October 10 – 14, 2018
Jacobs I As Wright's Most Important Building
Sidney K. Robinson
From the Japanese Print to the Jacobs and Schwartz Houses
Ken Dahlin, AIA
On Usonia!
James Dennis
'In Return for the Use of the Tractor': An Offer to Wright that Altered Taliesin
Keiran Murphy
The Founding and Early Years of the Taliesin Fellowship
Tim Quigley, AIA
Advocating for Wright Buildings
Barbara Gordon
Panel: Preserving Taliesin
Sandra Shane-DuBow, Jack Holzhueter, Ryan Hewson, Mike Degen, Gary Zimmer
Panel: Preserving in Action
Scott W. Perkins, Charles J. Quagliana, AIA, Mary Roberts, Gunny Harboe, FAIA
Teaching Wright in the 21st Century
Anna Andrzejewski
How Wright Learned to Separate Art and Automation
Nicholas and Angela Hayes
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
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