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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. The dedicated team of historians, craftspeople ...
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.
Later in his career, Wright remarked: “Unity Temple makes an entirely new architecture—and is the first expression of it. That is my contribution to modern architecture.”. Unity Temple Restoration Foundation (UTRF) was founded in 1973 by volunteers dedicated to restoring and preserving Unity Temple. The organization promotes architecture ...
18 de jun. de 2010 · Completed in 1908 in Oak Park, United States. More than a century ago Frank Lloyd Wright, whom we just honored on his birthday last week, designed one of the most famous sacred buildings in the...
30 de ago. de 2022 · 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. The ...
12 de oct. de 2020 · lauren levine media, in cooperation with unity temple restoration foundation (UTRF), has announced the release of the new documentary, unity temple: frank lloyd wright’s modern masterpiece. an ...
Unity Temple (1905-08) is Frank Lloyd Wright’s only surviving public building from his ... Unity Temple stands today as a masterpiece of modern architecture and design. Learn More. Date & Time. ... Oak Park, IL 60301 United States. Admission. $15 - $40. Guided Interior Tour. Unity Temple represents a defining moment in Frank Lloyd Wright’s ...
