Join us for an engaging look at Frank Lloyd Wright’s extraordinary twin masterpieces, Taliesin and Taliesin West, illustrated with photographs and stories that bring to life the complexity and excitement of preserving these unique historic sites. Taliesin (Welsh for “shining brow”), the architect’s lifelong home, lies in the lush hills of rural Spring Green, Wisconsin. .
Past Events
Noted memoirist, essayist, and scholar André Aciman will use Rome and other destinations to explore how travel changes us, and how our perceptions of a place derive from our own unique experiences.
Following an introduction by WMF President Bonnie Burnham, WMF Chairman Emeritus John Julius Norwich and distinguished writer William Dalrymple will share their insights on how historic sites can reveal the memories of our ancestors and ourselves.
Join us for a presentation by architect Paulina Villanueva as she reflects on the life and work of her father, renowned Venezuelan architect Carlos Raul Villanueva. Villanueva, one of the most influential Latin American architects of the twentieth century, played a major role in the modernization of many cities in Venezuela. .
Dr. Robles is an archaeologist and researcher for the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) –Oaxaca. Located in southwestern Mexico, Monte Albán Archaeological Site is an ancient metropolis founded by the Zapotec culture in the sixth century B.C., and later occupied by the Mixtecs.
Travelers explored the rich cultural heritage and natural beauty of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.
Once one of the world’s greatest trading cities and known as “The Garden City of the East,” Yangon offers a rich cultural landscape and the largest collection of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century colonial architecture in Southeast Asia.
The exotic and wildly imaginative design for the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Studio, created between 1917 and 1923 by artist Robert Chanler, features painted plaster reliefs of fantastical sea creatures on the ceiling and an extraordinary fireplace engulfed in three-dimensional plaster and bronze flames stretching twenty feet high.
Route 66 was included on the 2008 World Monuments Watch to draw attention to the complex challenges of preserving not only an iconic cultural landscape, but a historic American experience.
Touring exhibitions may come and go, but there's something about the permanence of site-specific art – whether in the mountains, at the heart of a city, or on a remote island – that often trumps works in white cubes across the world.