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Uploaded by on Jul 13, 2008

Vlog is a follow up to the preview I posted yesterday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xrWl_RttoE
Frank Lloyd Wright is considered by many to be America's greatest architect, and to learn about his early life and the building's he created Meghan Carter of http://www.AsktheDecroator.com traveled to Oak Park to see his original home and studio. There she discovered Frank Lloyd Wright not only his radical work but his extraordinary life. Go inside Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece home, Fallingwater. REDUCED $400,000 from Appraisal. Buyers will entertain all offers. Frank Lloyd Wright inspired architecture sits on 2.4 acres with incredible sunsets, city lights and mountain views. With over 6700 sq ft of living space, including a separate 2 bedroom guest house w/full kitchen, dining @ living room, is enegy efficiency steel frame home with R-80 & R-90, Solar water system w/150 gallon capacity & insulated w/radiant barrier film. Gourmet kitchen; 3 ovens, Scotsman ice maker, Fisher-Paykel dishwasher, 6 top gas range, dual Sub-zero fridges, & galley pantry. Pool with waterfall & outdoor lighting. Wright made several alterations to the design of Monona Terrace during his lifetime.
In 1990, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin resurrected Wright's proposal, which won narrow approval in a public referendum in 1992. Construction began two years later.
In 1997, nearly sixty years after Wright's original inception, Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center opened its doors.The final design as executed was by Taliesin architect (and former Wright apprentice) Anthony Puttnam, based somewhat on Wright's design. Alden and Vada Dow spent a memorable summer (1933) with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin. He made this film during his brief attendance at the school. The narrator is that of architect/engineer, William Wesley Peters, one of the early apprentices at Frank Lloyd Wright's School of Architecture. Brandoch Peters is the son of William Wesley Peters, who was Frank Lloyd Wright chief engineer and trusted assistant from 1935 to Wright's death in 1959. Brandoch was largely raised by Wright and Wright's wife Olgivanna, his grandmother, after the death of his his own mother and a younger brother in a car accident in 1945. Brandoch, therefore, has a unique perspective on the life of Frank Lloyd Wrght; he also brings fresh insight into his brilliant father Wes, and into Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, who, along with Wes provided leadership, following Wright's death, to the Taliesin Fellowship, the utopian community founded by the Wrights, which flourishes still. 125th Birthday Celebration at Taliesin East. Cocktails at Hillside. ... Frank Lloyd Wright

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