Unity Temple Syllabus

DAY 1

Lecture: By FLWT curator, David Bagnell.
Instruction: Open the image file first, then open the accompanying sound file, advance the slides as you listen.

A New American Architecture: FLW and the Prairie Style - VIEW | LISTEN

1. Introduction Frank Lloyd Wright Trust
2. Architecture 101
3. Wright - The Five Influences
4. Wright - Organic Architecture
5. Unity Temple FLW, Architecture for Liberal Religion
6. New Edifice of Unity Church
7. FLW, An Autobiography (excerpt
8. Unity Temple Emergency Procedures

DAY 2

Tour Training video: By FLWT volunteer, Jim Peters.

"The History of Unity Temple", By FLWT volunteer, Mark Scott.

1. Architecture - Residential Architecture of the 19th and 20th Centuries
2. Unity Temple Core Tour
3. Interpretation and Tour Presentation
4. Unity Temple Research Paper

Supplemental Resources and Readings

1. Acknowledgements & Copyright
2. Bibliography
3. Glossary of Art and Architectural Terms
4. Oak Park and River Forest History
5. Other Prairie School Architects
6. Prairie Style (1900-1920s)
7. Training for Interpretation - Five Objectives
8. Wright's Early Career
9. Wright's Later Work