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History of Unity TempleOverviewFrank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple is an icon of 20th-century modern architecture. Designed for the Unitarian Universalist congregation in 1905, Unity Temple was constructed between 1906 and 1908, and dedicated in 1909. For more than 100 years, the building has continued to be the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation.
Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright's Modern Masterpiece. Available on iTunes. Details the modernist architect’s painstaking and wildly experimental $25 million revival of a century-old Unitarian church in suburban Chicago. Documentary 2021 56 min. G.
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 pulls back the curtain on Frank Lloyd Wright’s first public commission in the early 1900’s to the painstaking efforts to restore the 100 year old building. The film intersperses the architect’s philosophies with quotes narrated by Brad Pitt.
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 ...
24 de mar. de 2024 · The dedicated team of architects, craftspeople, historians, and members of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation and Unity Temple Restoration Foundation reveal the history of one of Wright’s most innovative buildings that merged his love of architecture with his own spiritual values.
