Presented By Richard Guy WilsonTuesday, September 15 at 6:30pm
The High Street Methodist Church, 230 East High Street, Springfield, Ohio.
Free for Members
Frank Lloyd Wright is frequently seen as a major player in the Arts & Crafts Movement in America. The movement named the Arts & Crafts was an English invention of William Morris and his followers who advocated for a return of the art of hand craftsmanship and also the medieval period in architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright stood for something very different and wrote a very famous essay, “The Art & Craft of the Machine.” This talk will investigate how Wright helped change the Arts & Crafts in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Richard Guy Wilson holds the Commonwealth Professor's Chair in Architectural History at the University of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson's University) in Charlottesville, Virginia. His specialty is the architecture, design and art of the 18th to the 20th century both in America and abroad. Wilson has received a number of academic honors, among them a Guggenheim fellow, and in 1986 he was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. He has served as an advisor and commentator for a number of television programs on PBS, A&E, and sixty-seven segments of America's Castles.
Following the lecture, all the attendees are invited to join us for a reception at the Westcott House. Cash bar and snacks will be served.
