Frank Lloyd WrightAmerican, 1867–1959Unity Temple, Oak Park, IL (Exterior perspective and partial plan)
May one see it?
Not receiving at present
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 279.1999
In the catalog
Sources
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Image: The Museum of Modern Art — © the artist or rights holder
Meanwhile, in the life of Frank Lloyd Wright
The whole life1928
Marries Olgivanna
His divorce from Miriam Noel was finalised in 1927, and after the required year's wait Wright married Olgivanna, his last wife, with whom he spent the rest of his life.
1932
Founds the Taliesin Fellowship
Wright and his wife Olgivanna, a former pupil of Gurdjieff, invited students to Taliesin to learn architecture and spiritual development while working under the master. Twenty-three came in the first year and 625 joined in Wright's lifetime; the Fellowship supplied workers for Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax Headquarters and the Guggenheim Museum.
1932
The Disappearing City and Broadacre City
In The Disappearing City Wright proposed Broadacre City: a city dissolved into the countryside, its homesteads, farms and workshops linked by roads, with parks and community buildings for its residents. The model covered 2,560 acres for 7,000 people; it was never built.
