Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation together with Lego and Brickstructures have released Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture Building sets in lego.

The line currently consists of six buildings – now including two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous and recognizable buildings, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and “Fallingwater.”

images copyright LEGO, Brickstructures and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

The Lighthouse, Scotland's National Architecture and Design Centre, is to stage the only European showing of 'Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner', as part of its 10th anniversary season.

Elrod Residence, John Lautner, Palm Springs, 1968 (photo Joshua White)

Over the course of a career spent largely in Los Angeles, John Lautner captured the essence of southern California in more than 150 distinctive structures. Trained by Frank Lloyd Wright, Lautner is best known for his private commissions such as the Elrod Residence in Palm Springs, featured in the James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever, and Los Angeles’s iconic ‘Chemosphere’.

Chemosphere, John Lautner, Los Angeles, 1960 (photo Joshua White)

This large scale retrospective will feature over 70 original drawings and models, spanning a 50-year period, as well as short films by award-winning documentary maker, Murray Grigor.

Marbrisa, John Lautner, Acapulco, 1973 (photo Sara Sackner)

'Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner' was organised by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in cooperation with The John Lautner Foundation and The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. It is made possible through major gifts from the Dunard Fund USA, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency and Frank and Berta Gehry.

Pearlman Mountain Cabin, John Lautner, Idyllwild, 1957 (photo Joshua White)

The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow G1 3NU
United Kingdom
Exhibition from March 20 2009 to July 26 2009

The Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts jointly present this first major museum retrospective of architect Eero Saarinen’s short but prolific career. Saarinen was one of the most celebrated, unorthodox, and controversial masters of 20th-century architecture. In many ways he was the architect of what has been dubbed “the American century,” the post-World War II era when the United States emerged as an influential world superpower.

Eero Saarinen, IBM Manufacturing and Training Facility, Rochester, Minnesota, circa 1958
Photographer Balthazar Korab © Balthazar Korab Ltd

Although Saarinen’s most iconic and publicly recognizable design is the soaring Gateway Arch in St. Louis, his work spanned many different areas of architectural practice, including the design of airports, corporate and academic campuses, churches and private residences, and furniture. Although criticized by his peers at the time for having a different style for each project, Saarinen rejected the dogma of an orthodox modernism and instead adopted a varied approach to architectural design, letting the subject and site guide his inventive solutions. His resulting body of work includes such masterpieces as the sweeping concrete curves of the TWA Terminal (1956–1962) at New York’s JFK Airport; the grandeur of General Motors Technical Center (1948–1956), dubbed an “industrial Versailles” by the media; and the iconic Womb Chair and Ottoman (1946–1948) or the innovative Pedestal (1954–1957) series of tables and chairs, both for Knoll and all classics of mid-century modernism.

Featured in the exhibition are never-before-seen sketches, working drawings, models, photographs, furnishings, films, and other ephemera from various archives and private collections. Exploring his entire output of more than 50 built and unbuilt projects, it provides a unique opportunity to consider Saarinen’s innovations in the use of new materials, technologies, and construction techniques within the larger context of postwar modern architecture.

In this collaborative presentation, the Walker Art Center will feature Saarinen’s furnishings and residences as well as his designs for churches and academic and corporate campuses, while the Minneapolis Institute of Arts will present his designs for airports, memorials, and embassies, as well as his early work within the context of its modernist design collection.

A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

The Walker Art Center, Target Gallery
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, U.S. Bank Gallery

From September 13, 2008 to January 4, 2009

'Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling' is both a survey of the past, present and future of the prefabricated home and a building project on New York's Museum of Modern Art's vacant west lot. Not since the mid-century House in the Garden series has MoMA built occupiable model buildings to demonstrate contemporary issues to the public.

Front cover image: Pieces of a Lustron Westchester prior to installation © Arnold Newman/Getty Images

The fives homes erected on the outdoor space to the west of the Museum building are designed by Kieran Timberlake Associates (Philadelphia); Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier (New York); Horden Cherry Lee Architects / Haack + Höpfner Architects (London/Munich); Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning / Associate Professor Lawrence Sass (Cambridge); and Oskar Leo Kaufmann (Dornbirn, Austria).

The exhibition, and its accompanying website, display the process of architectural design and production in equal measure with the actual end result. Within the gallery, eighty-four architectural projects spanning 180 years are presented by means of film, architectural models, original drawings and blueprints, fragments, photographs, patents, games, sales materials and propaganda, toys, and partial reconstructions. This diverse collection of material illustrates how the prefabricated house has been, and continues to be, not only a reflection on the house as a replicable object of design but also a critical agent in the discourse of sustainability, architectural invention, and new material and formal research.

Cellophane House designed in 1984 by KieranTimberlake Associates (Philadelphia)
© 2008 Kieran Timberlake Architects

Digitally Fabricated Housing for New Orleans designed in 2004 by Lawrence Sass (Cambridge) © 2008 Lawrence Sass

Burst House designed in 2008 by Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier (New York)
© 2008 Floto + Warner

System3 House designed in 2008 by Oskar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Rüf (Dornbirn, Austria) © 2008 Oskar Leo Kaufmann and Albert Rüf

Micro Compact Home designed in 2001 by Horden Cherry Lee Architects / Haack + Höpfner Architects (London/Munich) © 2008 Sascha Kletzsch

Exhibition from July 20 to October 20, 2008
MoMA, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor - New York
West lot (outdoor space to the west of the Museum building)

Wright Auction house will be auctioning Louis Kahn's Esherick house located just outside of Philadelphia. The house stands as one of the most important houses realized by Kahn throughout his career, and is the first residence to illustrate his mature architectural ideals. The house will be offered in Wright's Important Design sale with an estimate of $2-3 million.

Wright has commissioned artist Todd Eberle to create an original photographic essay that elaborately documents the Esherick house with Eberle's exactness and astounding understanding of architectural spaces. From abstract details that show the perfection of the construction to sweeping shots of the stunning elevations, the images showcase Kahn and Eberle's shared affinities for the subtleties of space and light.

Photos ©2008 Todd Eberle

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