{"id":30674,"date":"2023-10-19T12:57:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T16:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewestmoreland.org\/?p=30674"},"modified":"2023-11-21T10:10:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T15:10:28","slug":"frank-lloyd-wrights-southwestern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewestmoreland.org\/blog\/frank-lloyd-wrights-southwestern-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southwestern Pennsylvania<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

October 15, 2023 – January 14, 2024<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Author: Jeremiah William McCarthy, Chief Curator  <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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In 2019 teams from The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and Fallingwater met to discuss a joint exhibition concept that would highlight Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s contributions to southwestern Pennsylvania and the important role both institutions have played in the cultural life of our region. As this dialogue progressed\u2014in the face of a global pandemic and in light of a national movement for social justice\u2014the signal role that technology played in everyday life grew. While it is clear that technologies unite individuals in the present, they also provide ways of imagining possible futures. The same can be said of architecture; it is both an experience and a possibility to live otherwise. Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s Southwestern Pennsylvania <\/em>is the outcome of four years of inspired encounters between our organizations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Skyline Ink Animators + Illustrators. Project for Rhododendron Chapel, Mill Run, Pennsylvania, <\/em>2023. Digital illustration based on an unrealized design by Frank Lloyd Wright [1952]. This image was created by permission of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, all rights reserved. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The resulting exhibition offers a multimedia experience by presenting videos and models of both realized and unrealized residential, commercial, and civic projects Frank Lloyd Wright designed from the 1930s through the 50s. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a suite of animated films by Skyline Ink Animators + Illustrators featuring six Wright projects for southwestern Pennsylvania: an office for Edgar J. Kaufmann (1935), a monumental reimagining of the Point (1947), a self-service garage for Kaufmann\u2019s Department Store (1949), the Point View Residences designed for the Edgar J. Kaufmann Charitable Trust (1952), and a 1941 gate lodge and 1952 chapel for the Fallingwater campus.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n