“Reminisces on Wright”

Free Presentation and “Reminisces on Wright”

4:30 to 5:30pm Sunday, 71 Duke St , Chester

Please join us this Sunday 27 September for a relaxed and informal discussion of anecdotes about Frank Lloyd Wright, the most famous architect of the 20^th century, by an author, scholar and teacher who knew and researched him, from 4:30 to 5:30pm at The Sadhana Centre, 71 Duke St , Chester (look for the Chester Harbour Yoga and Massage Therapy sign).

We are privileged to play host this weekend to H. Allen Brooks, esteemed architectural historian and Professor Emeritus, UToronto. Prof. Brooks focused his research and writings on the two most influential and widely regarded architects of the 20^th century, literally writing the book(s) on them. He is credited with coining the term “ Prairie School ” to describe Wright (1867-1959) and his contemporaries, and later went on to create and edit the 32 volume Archive containing more than 32,000 drawings and designs by Le Corbusier (1887-1965).

He has been invited to Dalhousie University for a public lecture on the occasion of the 25^th anniversary of the Honorary Doctoral degree awarded him by the School of Architecture . Prof Brooks will spend a few days enjoying all Chester has to offer and, by request, is taking this time to discuss his visits with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1950s. Please email RSVP or questions to John Pece at whitedogdesignbuild@yahoo.com .

His 1981 book Writings on Wright: Selected Comments on Frank Lloyd Wright brings together scholarly and lay writings to focus on both the vast reality and vast myth of Wright. Reviewers stated it was “a relief from doctrinaire fulminations with which the literature on modern architecture abounds,” (an unintended ironic example of just such fulminations?) and that it “remind(s)…readers that the best writing about Wright has not issued from the confines of academic architectural history.”

Thanks, and please join us and Allen, our guest, for this relaxed, accessible and enjoyable conversation about Frank Lloyd Wright.

John Pece and Leigh Milne