Date: Friday 3 April 3 2009 at 7pm.
Location: Saint Louis Art Museum Auditorium
Anthony Alofsin will speak about "Frank Lloyd Wright, St. Louis and Organic Architecture."
Dr. Alofsin is internationally recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and as an expert on modern architecture. In 2006, Alofsin received the Wright Spirit Award from the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. The highest honor given by the Conservancy, the award recognized Dr. Alofsin’s significant contributions to the study of Frank Lloyd Wright as a scholar, educator, author and curator.
The lecture is sponsored by The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Below are additional photographs of the house by this blog's author Andrew Raimist, AIA. Clicking on the image will take you to the Flickr page with a larger image.

Light streaming into the house through the glass doors created by Mr. Russell Kraus. The hexagonal tables and stools can be moved at will and used independently or joined in various combinations. The interior furnishings were created by Kraus following Frank Lloyd Wright plans.





A closer view of the brick wall reveals one of Wright's trademark details: raking the horizontal joints to emphasize the horizontality of the overall composition and grounding these walls in the landscape with a sense of mass and weight. In this case, the mortar was selected to match the brick, creating a monolithic effect somewhat different from his earlier designs for the Dana-Thomas House in Springfield and the Robie House in Chicago. In each of these cases, the horizontal mortar joints are continuous and the vertical joints are colored to blend with the bricks themselves resulting in a striking graphic presence.
The sharp point of the roof overhang along with the butt-glazed miter detail in the window emphasizes the extent of the cantilever and creates the sense of a look-out point set high up in the wall. From the interior, the view is expansive and open in a way hard to foresee from its exterior composition.
Photographs by Andrew Raimist, AIA. Floor plan derived from image on the EbsworthPark.org website.
His architecture is awesome! I wish I had my house designed by him. I bet with those big houses and structures, the chimney cleaners would find it a bit difficult to clean the fireplace. But his works are such a sight to see.
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