Publications - Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy

SaveWright in Print

SaveWright is the Conservancy’s biannual print magazine covering a variety of scholarly and practical topics of interest to academics, building owners and a general audience of Wright enthusiasts. Each issue is organized around a central theme. Past themes have included restoring Wright houses, incorporating green technology into Wright buildings, Wright’s work in Japan, interior design and furniture.

The print edition of SaveWright is mailed to all active Conservancy members each spring and fall. The full electronic edition is available below.

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Wright’s Influence in Southern California

Spring 2019

Guest Editor: Kenneth Breisch

Five articles including the architects Wright inspired, restoration of Residence A at the Barnsdall Complex, Wright's "Little Dipper" and the Schindler Terrace, Lloyd Wright's City of Mentalphysics, and Wright's use of concrete.

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Preserving Wright

Fall 2018

Guest Editor: Edith Payne

Six articles on preservation issues including how to protect your Wright building, the politics of restoring a city-owned Wright theater, a recap of the fight to save Lockridge Medical Clinic, a case study on restoring the Tonkens House, moving the Lindholm House, and preserving the meaning of Wright's words.

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Wright’s Low-Cost Housing

Spring 2018

Guest Editor: Debra Nemeth

Eight articles including Wright's affordable apartment buildings, $5,000 Fireproof House, American System-Built Houses, the Usonian house, midcentury prefab designs and more.

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More Magazines

Wright Sites: A Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright Public Places
by Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy (Princeton Architectural Press, 2017)

Frank Lloyd Wright’s groundbreaking designs, innovative construction techniques and inviting interiors continue to astound and inspire generations of architects and nonarchitects alike. The only comprehensive collection of Wright-designed buildings open to the public in the United States and Japan, Wright Sites has been revised and expanded for release May 2, 2017, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the architect’s birth in June 1867. The fourth edition of the Conservancy’s best-selling guidebook contains 20 new sites, updated site descriptions and access information, itineraries for Wright road trips, and, for the first time, all color photographs.

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Frank Lloyd Wright: Preservation, Design, and Adding to Iconic Buildings
by Richard Longstreth, Editor (University of Virginia Press, 2014)

Past Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy board president Richard Longstreth, director of the graduate program in historic preservation at George Washington University, edited a selection of papers presented over three days at the Conservancy’s 2010 Cincinnati conference into the first major publication to address the issue of adding on to Wright buildings. Contributors include de Teel Patterson Tiller, Sidney K. Robinson, Anne Biebel and Mary Keiran Murphy, Mark Hertzberg, Dale Allen Gyure, Neil Levine, Scott W. Perkins, Tom Kubala , Eric Jackson-Forsberg, Lynda S. Waggoner, Patrick J. Mahoney and Thomas Templeton Taylor.

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