A major retrospective exhibition examining the drawings and models of legendary American architect Frank Lloyd Wright has opened today, coinciding with what would have been his 150th birthday.
Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive presents almost 400 objects from the architect's vast collection of materials, which was jointly acquired by MoMA and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University in 2012.
This pencil and coloured pencil perspective of the Fallingwater house ? one of Wright's most famous projects ? features in the MoMA exhibition
Drawings and models of some of his most important projects ? including the Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania, Unity Temple in Illinois and the Guggenheim Museum in New York ? were selected for the show from the archive's 55,000 drawings, 300,000 sheets of correspondence, 125,000 photographs, and 2,700 manuscripts. As one of the most prominent and prolific architects of the 20th century, Wright designed over 1,000 buildings and completed over 500 during a career that lasted seven decades.
One of Wright's Little Farms Units from 1932?33 is modelled in painted wood and particle board
Born on 8 June 1867, he started his architectural journey at the Chicago practices of Joseph Lyman Silsbee, then Adler & Sullivan. Wright went on to set up his own firm in 1893, beginning a period of constant experimentation with the built environment.
The MoMA exhibition showcases the architect's refined draftsmanship, hi...