Frank Lloyd Wright in Florida

Don Pacho · May 6th, 2012, 01:12 AM

At Florida Southern College is located the largest collection of buildings on one site ever created by Frank Lloyd Wright, one of America’s foremost architects. Wright’s plan for the campus is the only tangible example of his community planning ideas, termed “Organic Architecture.” His concept was to decentralize the city by distributing urban functions to rural areas and to utilize new technologies in the building trades. Wright’s involvement at the campus was the result of urgings from Ludd M. Spivey, then president of the college. Wright insisted that the college’s individual buildings reflect their environment through the use of “native materials all universally adapted to the uses of young life.” Eighteen buildings, only seven of which were completed, were originally planned for the campus. The Annie Pfeiffer Chapel, begun in 1938, was the first to be built, and the Polk Science Building, completed in 1959 during the presidency of Charles T. Thrift, Jr., was the last. Later buildings on the campus were designed by Nils Schweizer, an eminent Florida architect and student of Wright. The Florida Southern College Architectural District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

• Annie Pfeiffer Chapel
• Carter Walbridge Hawkins Seminar Building
• Emile E. Watson – Benjamin Fine Administration Buildings
• Polk County Science Building
• Thad Buckner Building
• Water Dome
• William H. Danforth Chapel

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Don Pacho · May 6th, 2012, 01:14 AM

Annie Pfeiffer Chapel

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-Corey- · May 7th, 2012, 06:40 PM

Bonitos edificios. No tenia idea sobre esos edificios en FL.

Don Pacho · May 8th, 2012, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by -Corey-

Bonitos edificios. No tenia idea sobre esos edificios en FL.

Este College queda en Lakeland. Es un campus grande y vale la pena visitarlo.

Espero que lo conserven bien pues ya tiene sus años. Es una joya arquitectónica y creo que es la única obra de Frank Lloyd Wright en la Florida.

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Don Pacho · May 11th, 2012, 04:31 AM

Miniland USA | LEGOLAND Florida

Annie Pfeiffer Chapel – Florida Southern College
By Architect Frank Lloyd Wright

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Don Pacho · May 18th, 2012, 01:59 AM

Emile E. Watson – Benjamin
Fine Administration Buildings

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Don Pacho · May 31st, 2012, 02:43 AM

Polk County
Science Building

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Don Pacho · June 11th, 2012, 01:50 AM

Carter Walbridge Hawkins
Seminar Building

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Don Pacho · June 17th, 2012, 10:43 PM

Thad Buckner Building

(Renamed Wm M Hollis Exhibition and Seminar Room)

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Don Pacho · June 24th, 2012, 12:51 AM

Water Dome

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Don Pacho · July 8th, 2012, 10:27 PM

William H. Danforth Chapel

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Don Pacho · July 25th, 2012, 02:21 AM

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Pictured is a LEGO model of the historical Frank Lloyd Wright designed Annie Pfeiffer Chapel.

Frank Lloyd Wright's signature building sits at the heart of his "Child of the Sun" campus at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. Wright's twenty-year relationship with the College began in 1938. He designed twelve structures making it the world's largest single-site collection of his works. Wright's campus was designated a National Historic Landmark District by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior in 2012. The campus was selected as the "Most Beautiful Campus in America" by The Princeton Review and a "Top Ten Campus with the Best Architecture" by Architectural Digest.

What other world famous buildings would you like to see recreated in LEGO bricks?

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Don Pacho · August 2nd, 2012, 02:58 AM

Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Child of the Sun” Included in Upcoming Guggenheim Exhibition

Florida Southern College’s long-hidden treasure trove of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings—the largest single-site collection of the architect’s work in the world—is ready for a new dawn. Known collectively as “Child of the Sun,” the 12 structures will be featured in the upcoming exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

In the context of Wright’s other projects, the show,“Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward” (May 15 through August 23), will feature photos and drawings of Wright’s one-of-a-kind master plan. Coincidentally, an ambitious restoration effort is currently under way on Wright’s college campus.

The project occupied Wright for 21 years, from 1938 until his death in 1959, but it all began with a simple telegram sent by then-president Dr. Ludd Spivey to Wright in Taliesin West: “Desire conference with you concerning plans for great education temple in Florida.” Eager to realize his dream of masterminding an entire city, Wright designed 18 buildings for Spivey, 12 of which were built. To save money, five of the buildings were constructed by the students themselves in exchange for tuition.

Wright’s centerpiece, a massive, 160-foot-diameter, 74-jet fountain called the Water Dome, was too technically advanced for its time. It was finally completed in 2007, the first Wright design to be built for an original client at the original site since 1966. The other buildings, however, including one-and-a-half miles of covered esplanades Wright designed to reference the site’s original orange trees, had fallen into disrepair as modifications altered the original designs and their walls of porous local soil became cracked and waterlogged. A $1.6-million grant from the State of Florida saved the walkways, and grants for $350,000 from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Save America’s Treasures Program and $195,000 from the Getty Foundation, as well as a spot on the National Register of Historic Places and the current World Monuments Watch List of “100 Most Endangered Sites,” is helping raise awareness and restore the campus to its original splendor.

More than $5 million dollars in federal and state grants and private gifts, combined with the work of New York-based architect Jeff Baker of Mesick-Cohen-Wilson-Baker, is helping transform the campus back to Wright’s original masterpiece. To be renovated are Wright’s only planetarium and theatre-in-the-round. The latter, in the Lucius Pond Ordway Building, was one of Wright’s favorites on campus, echoing the light-filled interiors of his own Arizona school, Taliesin West. The William H. Danforth Chapel is resplendent in brilliant leaded glass windows—a Wright staple, but marred by theft and weather over the years.

The highlight of the campus is the Annie Pfeiffer Chapel from 1941, the first building of the lot to be completed. Light pours into the chapel through colored glass inlays in the hand-cast, textured bricks, while a tower looking like a stack of Wright’s famous bow ties rises from the roof. Baker will use Wright’s original molds to recast blocks for the façade and parts of the rusting steel tower frame—called the “the bicycle rack in the sky” by students. Work is set to finish by 2010.

Architect and dean of the Yale School of Architecture Robert A.M. Stern is working on two new residence halls and a humanities classroom building for Florida Southern College. The buildings are designed to echo Wright’s trademark overhanging roofs and devoted relationship to the natural landscape. The second residence hall will be completed this year, with the humanities building to follow in 2010. Stern, a long-time admirer of the site, which he calls “the coolest architectural campus,” will lecture on Florida Southern’s place in architectural history as one of the most important examples of Wright’s work at a dinner to be held by the College at the Guggenheim Museum on June 26.

Images: Robin Hill

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May 6th, 2012, 01:12 AM	#1
Don Pacho Ilustre de Bucaramanga Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Miami Posts: 12,234 Likes (Received): 288	Frank Lloyd Wright in Florida At Florida Southern College is located the largest collection of buildings on one site ever created by Frank Lloyd Wright, one of America’s foremost architects. Wright’s plan for the campus is the only tangible example of his community planning ideas, termed “Organic Architecture.” His concept was to decentralize the city by distributing urban functions to rural areas and to utilize new technologies in the building trades. Wright’s involvement at the campus was the result of urgings from Ludd M. Spivey, then president of the college. Wright insisted that the college’s individual buildings reflect their environment through the use of “native materials all universally adapted to the uses of young life.” Eighteen buildings, only seven of which were completed, were originally planned for the campus. The Annie Pfeiffer Chapel, begun in 1938, was the first to be built, and the Polk Science Building, completed in 1959 during the presidency of Charles T. Thrift, Jr., was the last. Later buildings on the campus were designed by Nils Schweizer, an eminent Florida architect and student of Wright. The Florida Southern College Architectural District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. • Annie Pfeiffer Chapel • Carter Walbridge Hawkins Seminar Building • Emile E. Watson – Benjamin Fine Administration Buildings • Polk County Science Building • Thad Buckner Building • Water Dome • William H. Danforth Chapel .

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Don Pacho Ilustre de Bucaramanga Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Miami Posts: 12,234 Likes (Received): 288	Annie Pfeiffer Chapel .

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Don Pacho Ilustre de Bucaramanga Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Miami Posts: 12,234 Likes (Received): 288	Miniland USA \| LEGOLAND Florida Annie Pfeiffer Chapel – Florida Southern College By Architect Frank Lloyd Wright .

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Don Pacho Ilustre de Bucaramanga Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Miami Posts: 12,234 Likes (Received): 288	Emile E. Watson – Benjamin Fine Administration Buildings .

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Don Pacho Ilustre de Bucaramanga Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Miami Posts: 12,234 Likes (Received): 288	Carter Walbridge Hawkins Seminar Building .

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Don Pacho Ilustre de Bucaramanga Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Miami Posts: 12,234 Likes (Received): 288	Thad Buckner Building (Renamed Wm M Hollis Exhibition and Seminar Room) .

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Don Pacho Ilustre de Bucaramanga Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Miami Posts: 12,234 Likes (Received): 288	William H. Danforth Chapel .

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Don Pacho Ilustre de Bucaramanga Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Miami Posts: 12,234 Likes (Received): 288	LEGOLAND Florida http://www.facebook.com/LEGOLANDFlorida Pictured is a LEGO model of the historical Frank Lloyd Wright designed Annie Pfeiffer Chapel. Frank Lloyd Wright's signature building sits at the heart of his "Child of the Sun" campus at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. Wright's twenty-year relationship with the College began in 1938. He designed twelve structures making it the world's largest single-site collection of his works. Wright's campus was designated a National Historic Landmark District by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior in 2012. The campus was selected as the "Most Beautiful Campus in America" by The Princeton Review and a "Top Ten Campus with the Best Architecture" by Architectural Digest. What other world famous buildings would you like to see recreated in LEGO bricks? .

August 2nd, 2012, 02:58 AM	#13
Don Pacho Ilustre de Bucaramanga Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Miami Posts: 12,234 Likes (Received): 288	Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Child of the Sun” Included in Upcoming Guggenheim Exhibition Florida Southern College’s long-hidden treasure trove of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings—the largest single-site collection of the architect’s work in the world—is ready for a new dawn. Known collectively as “Child of the Sun,” the 12 structures will be featured in the upcoming exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In the context of Wright’s other projects, the show,“Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward” (May 15 through August 23), will feature photos and drawings of Wright’s one-of-a-kind master plan. Coincidentally, an ambitious restoration effort is currently under way on Wright’s college campus. The project occupied Wright for 21 years, from 1938 until his death in 1959, but it all began with a simple telegram sent by then-president Dr. Ludd Spivey to Wright in Taliesin West: “Desire conference with you concerning plans for great education temple in Florida.” Eager to realize his dream of masterminding an entire city, Wright designed 18 buildings for Spivey, 12 of which were built. To save money, five of the buildings were constructed by the students themselves in exchange for tuition. Wright’s centerpiece, a massive, 160-foot-diameter, 74-jet fountain called the Water Dome, was too technically advanced for its time. It was finally completed in 2007, the first Wright design to be built for an original client at the original site since 1966. The other buildings, however, including one-and-a-half miles of covered esplanades Wright designed to reference the site’s original orange trees, had fallen into disrepair as modifications altered the original designs and their walls of porous local soil became cracked and waterlogged. A $1.6-million grant from the State of Florida saved the walkways, and grants for $350,000 from the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Save America’s Treasures Program and $195,000 from the Getty Foundation, as well as a spot on the National Register of Historic Places and the current World Monuments Watch List of “100 Most Endangered Sites,” is helping raise awareness and restore the campus to its original splendor. More than $5 million dollars in federal and state grants and private gifts, combined with the work of New York-based architect Jeff Baker of Mesick-Cohen-Wilson-Baker, is helping transform the campus back to Wright’s original masterpiece. To be renovated are Wright’s only planetarium and theatre-in-the-round. The latter, in the Lucius Pond Ordway Building, was one of Wright’s favorites on campus, echoing the light-filled interiors of his own Arizona school, Taliesin West. The William H. Danforth Chapel is resplendent in brilliant leaded glass windows—a Wright staple, but marred by theft and weather over the years. The highlight of the campus is the Annie Pfeiffer Chapel from 1941, the first building of the lot to be completed. Light pours into the chapel through colored glass inlays in the hand-cast, textured bricks, while a tower looking like a stack of Wright’s famous bow ties rises from the roof. Baker will use Wright’s original molds to recast blocks for the façade and parts of the rusting steel tower frame—called the “the bicycle rack in the sky” by students. Work is set to finish by 2010. Architect and dean of the Yale School of Architecture Robert A.M. Stern is working on two new residence halls and a humanities classroom building for Florida Southern College. The buildings are designed to echo Wright’s trademark overhanging roofs and devoted relationship to the natural landscape. The second residence hall will be completed this year, with the humanities building to follow in 2010. Stern, a long-time admirer of the site, which he calls “the coolest architectural campus,” will lecture on Florida Southern’s place in architectural history as one of the most important examples of Wright’s work at a dinner to be held by the College at the Guggenheim Museum on June 26. Images: Robin Hill .