WISDOM: A CONVERSATION WITH FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: 60 YEARS OF LIVING ARCHITECTURE (TV)

Summary

One in this series of filmed interviews with notable figures in the arts, politics, and the humanities. In this program, Hugh Downs interviews the eighty-three-year-old architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 about his designs and philosophy of architecture. Wright discusses the influence of Louis Sullivan; organic versus modern architecture; organic versus conventional architecture; the Bear Run house; his two homes, Taliesin (in Spring Green, Wisconsin) and Taliesin West (in Scottsdale, Arizona); his innovations; his Unitarian Church building; factories; and American architecture. (This program, without the 'Wisdom' umbrella, was originally telecast on May 17, 1953.)

Details

• NETWORK: NBC
• DATE: December 1, 1957 Sunday 2:30 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:29:05
• COLOR/B&W: B&W
• CATALOG ID: T77:0189
• GENRE: Talk/Interviews
• SUBJECT HEADING: Architects; Architecture; Architecture, Modern; Architecture, American; Taliesin, Spring Green, Wis.; Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Ariz.
• SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1957-1959, 1961-1965
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Ben Park … Producer
• Hugh Downs … Interviewer
• Frank Lloyd Wright … Guest
• Louis Sullivan