FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Forerunner to Modernism



Conference
October 13th - October
14th, 2007

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Organic Architecture of Today

Speakers: Eric Lloyd Wright, Arthur Dyson Fred Stitt,
Brian Spencer, Aldo Loris Rossi, Mario Galvagni

Venue: Centro Studi Santa Maria Maddalena, Volterra


Conference Details:

Saturday, October 13th

Starting 10.30 am

Greeting of the president of the association AMICI DI FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Eric Lloyd Wright
Architect and founder of the Wright Way Organic Resource Center, Malibu,
Architecture and natural habitat, search for a bio-architecture

Arthur Dyson
Architect, ex-president of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Taliesin West,
member of the International Academy of Architecture

Development of an idea - the Organic Architecture

Fred Stitt
Architect and directore of the San Francisco Institute of Architecture and the Berkley Institute of Ecological Design
Modern green building and ecological design


1. pm
Lunch Break with a buffet at Villa Palagione- Centro Interculturale




3.00 pm


Brian Spencer
Historian of Architectural Science, member of the Americal Institutes of Architects,
lecturer of the University of Sofia, Rostov, Politechnika Gdanska, director of the Milwaulkee Art Museum

Temporary camps designed between 1929 - 1933

Aldo Loris Rossi
Lecturer of Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture at Naples University
The Organic Hyperrealism

Mario Galvagni
Architectural research scientist at C.R.A.P.F (Research Center for Architecture, Painting and Physics),
Laboratorio per l' Unitarietà del Sapere Contractual professor of GestaltEcology at the Faculty of Architecture in Parma
and of the University of Political Science in Pavia (urban and rural sociology)

Experimental organic architecture as ecology of forms


Finishes 7.00 pm




Sunday October 14th

Centro Studi Santa Maria Maddalena, Volterra

10.30-12,30 am
Carol Bishop, pittrice:
"La visione romantica dell'architettura di Frank Lloyd Wright"

Dibattito dei relatori con il pubblico e la stampa

4.30 pm
at Villa Palagione
Intrattenimento musicale:
Musiche di Bach - Francesco Fontana al violoncello

Brani tratti da "Un' autobiografia" di Frank Lloyd Wright, letti da Simone Migliorini

Musiche di Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Marcello -
Ornella Bazzini alla spinetta e Paolo Fratini al flauto