For Members of the Volume 42 : Issue 2 Summer – Fall 2016 Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Trust celebrates Wright 150 in 2017 | 1867 - 2017 Wright Angles: A DIALOGUE LOOKING AHEAD TO WRIGHT 150 From the President & CEO In 2017 the Trust will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth. Born in post-Civil War America, Wright was a child of the rural Midwest whose life was transformed by Chicago. Here he arrived at age nineteen, determined to become an architect of great distinction in a city of great architects immersed in building a new Chicago in the midst of dynamic change and progressive thinking. His lifetime spanned the modern era, from the Avant-Garde movements of the early 20th century to the height of Modernism by mid century. He fulfilled his ambition, creating the Prairie style, a uniquely American architecture, and continuously recreating his original design vision to the very end of his long life and career. During 2017 the Trust will collaborate with many businesses, cultural organizations, and civic agencies Cover photo: Frank Lloyd Wright at age 3, ca. 1870 to recognize Wright’s legacy in Chicago, where the Collection of the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust majority of his built works remain today. Our Trust logo has been festively enhanced for the celebration that will have many points of light animating our city and its environs. Check our website, as we develop a comprehensive list of events and activities, some listed Board of Directors here, anticipating the yearlong celebration. John M. Rafkin, Chairman 2016 continues with the Trust’s signature annual lecture Robert Miller, Vice Chair and Chair, Executive Committee program, Thinking into the Future: The Robie House Steven E. Brady, Treasurer and Chair, Finance Committee Series on Architecture, Design and Ideas. This year’s David Dunning, Secretary speaker is Toshiko Mori, a member of the Harvard Design School faculty and practitioner whose projects Peter R. George include the Darwin Martin House Visitor Center and David Hernandez Patricia Hunt other museum commissions. Robert Pasin Thanks to a generous grant from the Terra Foundation Don Rosenwinkel for American Art, the Trust is initiating a new Teachers Randall S. Thorne Forum with increased curriculum-related materials Tim Samuelson, Advisory Member Graham J. Rarity, Advisory Member available to educators on our website. Watch our Nichole Markley Linhardt, Advisory Member website as it grows to embrace and serve new audiences! Wright 150 logo courtesy of Schedler Brennan Design + Consulting, designer Ana Schedler Celeste Adams President & CEO Contents 4 Thinking into the Future 9 Trust Receives TERRA 15 Volunteer Appreciation 18 Summer–Fall with Architect Grant for Teacher Support 2016 Programs at the Trust Toshiko Mori 14 Support the 2016 16 ShopWright 6 2017 Travel Wright Annual Fund Journeys Celebrate Wright 150 Page 2 COMING IN 2017 TO CELEBRATE WRIGHT 150 To celebrate 150 years since Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth on June 8, 2017, the Trust will present an array of programs and collaborate with our cultural partners around Chicago and the country. Watch our website for developing programs and events throughout the year. Plan to join us for these special programs and more. Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Online Exhibition: Wright’s Japan Photographs. Available on flwright.org, June 2017 Art Institute of Chicago Frank Lloyd Wright and the Japanese Print Collection at the Art Institute Japanese Galleries, April 22 – July 9, 2017 Online Exhibition: Our Most Distinguished Outcast: Frank Lloyd Wright and Wendigen Museum of Modern Art Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archives, June 12 – October 1, 2017 New York Frank Lloyd Wright Trust New York City: Wright’s Urban Vision, July 8–10, 2017 Travel Wright Trust travelers will view MoMA’s Frank Lloyd Wright exhibition and other Wright sites. Japan through the Eyes of Frank Lloyd Wright, September 2–13, 2017 A special journey to Japan led by architect and professor Kevin Nute. Morris to Mackintosh: British Arts and Crafts, June 9–18, 2017 Led by Arts and Crafts expert, author Peter Cormack, especially for Wright 150. Chicago History Museum Frank Lloyd Wright Film Series, May 2017 Visit flwright.org for a complete list of Wright 150 programs in 2017. Page 3 DIALOGUE IN ARCHITECTURE THINKING INTO THE FUTURE: THE ROBIE HOUSE SERIES ON ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND IDEAS AN EVENING WITH ARCHITECT TOSHIKO MORI This September, the Frank Lloyd Wright Institutes for BioMedical Research, Trust, in partnership with the University the School of Environmental Research of Chicago and the Logan Center for the & Technology for Brown University, Arts, welcomes internationally renowned a canopy for the Brooklyn Children’s architect Toshiko Mori as the 2016 Museum, Thread: Artists Residency and speaker for Thinking Into the Future: Cultural Center, and a new canopy for The Robie House Series on Architecture, the Hudson Park Boulevard Subway Design and Ideas. in New York City. The firm is currently engaged in master plans for the Buffalo Toshiko Mori is the Robert P. Hubbard Botanical Gardens and the Brooklyn Professor in the Practice of Architecture Public Library. TMA’s projects are at Harvard University Graduate School represented in international exhibitions, Architecture is a of Design and the principal of Toshiko which have included the 2012 and Mori Architect. She is the founder of 2014 Venice Architecture Biennales. discipline where you VisionArc, a think-tank promoting global can have multivalent dialogue for a sustainable future and TMA has also undertaken several high- one of the founders of Paracoustica, profile projects next to, in reference to, interests. You could a non-profit promoting music in and in addition to the works of architects be a philosopher, underserved communities. such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul a geographer, a Rudolph, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Since opening Toshiko Mori Architect Rohe and Philip Johnson. Mori describes scientist, an artist, (TMA) in 1981, Mori has created a these projects as “silent exchanges with an engineer; you can diverse group of exemplary works. deceased Masters,” that create “an be poetic about it. Through a broad range of programs intellectual continuity within the language including urban, civic, institutional, of contemporary architecture.” cultural, residential, museum and exhibition design, TMA integrates Mori has received numerous awards and Thinking into the Future: new and traditional materials and her work has been widely exhibited and The Robie House Series on techniques into extraordinarily varied published. In 2003 Mori was awarded Architecture, Design and Ideas architectural contexts. the Cooper Union Inaugural John Hejduk engages leading international, national and Chicago voices in architecture, Award. In 2005, she received the “My work is all about the context,” design and contemporary culture Academy Award in Architecture from that point the direction to a bright states Mori, “Relating the project to the the American Academy of Arts and and promising future for the next specific site, whether urban or rural, and Letters, and the Medal of Honor from the generation. resolving the materiality of the project AIA New York Chapter. Her work was Taking Wright’s future-thinking is very important to me. I change all the exhibited in the Cooper-Hewitt National philosophy as expressed in the Robie time and I don’t repeat the same style. Design Museum’s “Design Life Now: House, the program explores current Every new building is an invention. Every National Design Triennial 2006” and at ideas and issues in architecture, design project starts from zero.” and society that stimulate debate about the Guggenheim Museum. our world in the 21st century from a TMA’s recent work includes the local to a global perspective. Cambridge headquarters for the Novartis Date: Thursday, September 29, 2016 Admission: Frank Lloyd Wright Trust members/University of Chicago alumni, faculty and staff/ Time: Cocktail reception: 5 pm, Lecture: 6 pm AIA Chicago members/Teachers: $20 Location: Logan Center for the Arts, University Non-members: $25 of Chicago, 915 East 60th Street Students: $5 Admission includes cocktail reception Page 4 DIALOGUE IN ARCHITECTURE THINKING INTO THE FUTURE: THE ROBIE HOUSE SERIES ON ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND IDEAS AN EVENING WITH ARCHITECT TOSHIKO MORI DARWIN D. MARTIN HOUSE VISITOR CENTER, BUFFALO, NEW YORK TMA’s design for the Darwin Martin House Visitor Center engages the Martin House through contrast rather than imitation. The design of the Pavilion’s roof is a reverse hip-roof, and the use of glass opposes the solid nature of opaque brick found in the Martin House. However, the Pavilion’s large triple-glazed glass panes grow out of the ground, cantilevered by continuous steel channels. Its plan reflects the open plan of the Martin House. This dialogue is an interpretation of Wright’s principles with contemporary materials and technology to create a new paradigm of organic architecture. Courtesy of Toshiko Mori Architect BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM ROOF TOP PAVILION, NEW YORK The Brooklyn Children’s Museum Roof Top Pavilion is a three-season, open-air canopy atop the existing roof terrace. The 7,300 sq ft clear span creates a column-free space to accommodate multiple functions, including gatherings, performances and casual outdoor dining for an existing café. The simplicity and efficiency of the arched steel structure’s single- radius curves and the use of Ethylene Tetra Fluoro Ethylene (ETFE) cladding allows the canopy