The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright - ACE129.7

Arizona desert, near Phoenix, and Taliesin West, where building started in 1937. Home movie footage of Wright by the new structure. Taliesin West exterior views. Students at work in the Great Drafting Room. Florida Southern University, completed 1958. Exterior views. The Madison Meeting House (1947), Wright’s last Unitarian church building. Exterior and interior. View over model of Broad Acre City, Wright’s Utopian community. The Price Tower, Bottlesville, Oklahoma (1952-1956). Drawing of similar tower in landscape, other drawings of "ideal" towns. Car arriving at the Gerald Tonkens house, Cincinnati (1955), an example of what Wright called "Usonian automatic". Eric Wright (grandson) who supervised the building, together with Tonkens, discussing interiors, mainly of concrete and glass construction. Exterior views. Eric Wright and Tonkens talk about the unit system of building. Exterior views. Wright and Tonkens talk about construction method
Detail of concrete and glass features with different light sources. Tonkens’s VO talking about how F L Wright insisted that a worried glazier should work to his design. FLW’s son, David Wright’s concrete block construction home in Arizona. Exterior and interior. Interior of V C Morris Gift Store, San Francisco, remodelled by Wright from 1948, and showing his preoccupation with circles matched with spirals.