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3 mar 2021 · On Thursday, February 25, 2021, the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation presented "Frank Lloyd Wright's Modern Masterpiece: Unity Temple," a panel disc...
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- Weitzman School of Design at Penn
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Modern Masterpiece, Unity Temple is an homage to America’s most renowned architect. The film pulls back the curtain on Wright’s first public commission in the early 1900’s to the painstaking efforts to restore the 100 year old building back to its original beauty.
Commissioned by the congregation of Oak Park Unity Church in 1905, Wright’s Unity Temple is the greatest public building of the architect’s Chicago years. Wright’s family on his mother’s side were Welsh Unitarians, and his uncle Jenkin Lloyd Jones was a distinguished Unitarian preacher with a parish on Chicago’s south side where Wright and his wife Catherine were married.
The mission of Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, founded in 1973, is to: Restore and preserve Unity Temple. Promote public awareness of and engagement with architecture. Educate the general public, including local, national, and international visitors of all ages about the significance of Unity Temple, Frank Lloyd Wright’s contribution to ...
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In UNITY TEMPLE: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S MODERN MASTERPIECE, filmmaker Lauren Levine follows the challenging $25 million restoration of Wright's first public commission and the painstaking efforts to bring the 100-year-old building back to its original beauty.
Unity Temple (1905-08) is Frank Lloyd Wright’s only surviving public building from his Prairie period. Limited by a modest budget and an urban site, Wright created an innovative design and used unconventional materials to produce one of the most sophisticated accomplishments of his early career. The oldest Wright building still in use for the ...
