Frank Lloyd Wright Film Screening

Frank Lloyd Wright Documentary Screening

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ on June 21, 2012

AIA Newark & Suburban Architects and The Architects League of Northern New Jersey  will host a public screening of the film Romanza:  The California Structures Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright., produced and directed by documentary filmmaker Michael Miner.

In 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a summer home for George and Emily Stewart in Montecito, California, Wright's first California commission, and his only prairie school building in the state. Thus began a 50-year relationship between Wright and the Golden State.   Wright designed more than 80 projects for California, and saw more than 25 built. The buildings were both grand and modest, public and private, and came from each major era of Wright's 7 decade long career.

With unprecedented access to every California Wright building, Romanza journeys all over the state, from the Los Angeles textile block houses famous for their appearances in dozens of Hollywood films, to Wright’s only San Francisco commission, a building which he designed as a “Glass of Champagne”, from the cinder block homes of the San Joaquin valley, to the “Ship’s Prow” home on the beach of Carmel bay, from Wright’s contentious relationship with oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, to perhaps the most charming of all Frank Lloyd Wright stories, the design for a doghouse in response to a 12-year-old’s letter.

We visit all 25 buildings, including the 3 California “legacy” projects, built long after Wright’s death. Also included is substantial material on Wright’s unbuilt California work, some of the most fantastically imaginative structures he ever designed. A Q& A Session will follow the screening of the film.

The screening will begin at 7:30 PM and Q&A will end at 9:30PM.  Cost is $5 per person, and light refreshments will be served.  The event is free to members of AIA Newark & Suburban and The Architects League of Northern New Jersey.

Questions can be sent to aiaadmin@verizon.net.

About AIA Newark & Suburban Architects & Architects League of Northern New Jersey

 AIANS & ALNNJ are Sections of AIA NJ, a Chapter and Region of the American Institute of Architects.  They are non-profit organizations that serve over 1000 members throughout Northern New Jersey.  Through public education and outreach, community redevelopment and government advocacy and partnerships, the AIA protects the professional interests of its members while working to create a responsive public environment for architectural and redevelopment projects.