Interpreter Training - Home and Studio Guided Independent Study

Guided Independent Study Schedule

Guided Independent Study Syllabus

DAY 1
Readings & Lectures to be completed for 11-12-18

Text: The Oak Park Home and Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
Instruction: Pick up text at Trust office, 951 Chicago Ave., Oak Park

Lectures: By FLWT curator, David Bagnell.

Instruction: For each lecture there are two files. Open the image file first, then open the accompanying sound file, advance the slides as you listen. Make note of any questions and bring them to class.

  1. History of the Home & Studio - VIEW | LISTEN
  2. A New American Architecture: FLW and the Prairie Style - VIEW | LISTEN

Online readings:
Instruction: Click on each of these readings to download PDF

  1. Introduction Frank Lloyd Wright Trust
  2. Architecture 101
  3. The Wright Family
  4. Wright - The Five Influences
  5. Wright - Organic Architecture
  6. Forest Avenue Walking Tour
  7. Interpretation and Tour Presentation
  8. Home and Studio Core Tour Fact Sheet
  9. Prairie Style
  10. Wright - His Oak Park Studio
  11. Architecture - Residential Architecture of the 19th and 20th Centuries

DAY 2
Reading to be completed by 11-27-18

Supplemental Resources and Readings
A note of caution, while in training, please keep your reading and study to the assigned and suggested readings provided here. Taking on more than the assigned readings can quickly become overwhelming. Not all information on the internet or in books is factual.

  1. Suggested Reading on Frank Lloyd Wright
  2. Acknowledgements & Copyright
  3. An Architect's Studio
  4. Architects in the Oak Park Studio
  5. Artists Who Worked With Wright
  6. Bibliography
  7. FLW Genealogy
  8. Glossary of Art and Architectural Terms
  9. Home and Studio - What's Wright?
  10. Hyde Park and University of Chicago History
  11. Oak Park and River Forest History
  12. Other Prairie School Architects
  13. Residential Architecture of 19th and 20th Centuries
  14. Safety, Security and Logistics & Museum Behavior
  15. The House Beautiful
  16. Training for Interpretation - Five Objectives
  17. William C. Wright Genealogy
  18. Wright's Early Career
  19. Wright's Later Work
  20. History of Ownership and Use of Frank Lloyd Wright