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History of Unity TempleOverviewFrank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple is an icon of 20th-century modern architecture. Designed for the Unitarian Universalist congregation in 1905, Unity Temple was constructed between 1906 and 1908, and dedicated in 1909. For more than 100 years, the building has continued to be the home of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation.
Some say Wright quit over the faux pas, some say Sullivan fired him. With a loan given him earlier by Sullivan, Wright had built a small home in Oak Park in 1889. He established his own practice in Chicago, but in 1898 relocated his practice to the home he had built in Oak Park. Wright’s first child – son Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. was born in ...
Commissioned by the congregation of Oak Park Unity Church in 1905, Wright’s Unity Temple is the greatest public building of the architect’s Chicago years. Wright’s family on his mother’s side were Welsh Unitarians, and his uncle Jenkin Lloyd Jones was a distinguished Unitarian preacher with a parish on Chicago’s south side where Wright and his wife Catherine were married.
The mission of Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, founded in 1973, is to: Restore and preserve Unity Temple. Promote public awareness of and engagement with architecture. Educate the general public, including local, national, and international visitors of all ages about the significance of Unity Temple, Frank Lloyd Wright’s contribution to ...
Unity Temple (1905-08) is Frank Lloyd Wright’s only surviving public building from his Prairie period. Limited by a modest budget and an urban site, Wright created an innovative design and used unconventional materials to produce one of the most sophisticated accomplishments of his early career. The oldest Wright building still in use for the ...
3 de mar. de 2021 · On Thursday, February 25, 2021, the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation presented "Frank Lloyd Wright's Modern Masterpiece: Unity Temple," a panel disc...
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The dedicated team of architects, craftspeople, historians, and members of the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation and Unity Temple Restoration Foundation reveal the history of one of Wright’s most innovative buildings that merged his love of architecture with his own spiritual values.
