Speaking of architecture tours, the ceremony celebrating completion of the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s five-structure Darwin D. Martin House Complex, Buffalo, NY, is scheduled for Oct. 4. Martin House is one of Wright’s best known Prairie House designs.
A PBS documentary on “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo” will air nationwide Sept. 4 at 10 p.m. EST and tours of the Martin Complex can be reserved by e-mailing: tours@darwinmartinhouse.org
But the Wright tourists really I feel for are the many who flock to the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, only to find it stripped skinless and bedecked in netting, due to the much needed exterior repairs now ensuing and not expected to be completed until the end of 2007.
My daughter and I recently took a photo for a rueful-looking young Asian tourist standing in front of the ugly hulk. The Guggenheim, now hosting a retrospective of architect Zaha Hadid (to Oct. 25), should mount a show about its own architecture, explaining in detail to Wright’s disappointed devotees what’s happening to its celebrated premises, and why.
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