FLW Road Trip... Better fuel up! (original) (raw)

Architecture Fri Jul 25 2008

Robie House in Hyde Park, Home & Studio in Oak Park, Taliesin in Spring Green and ... a Phillips 66 in Cloquet?

It may seem unbelievable but Frank Lloyd Wright actually designed a gas station in the small Minnesota town of Cloquet. According to the Chicago Tribune, it is celebrating 50 years of Wrightian glory with a Symposium host by AIA Minnesota. The article states that the design concept is a result of Wright's plan for a town titled "Broadacre City". However, the aesthetic of the station most closely resembles his Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Given that both structures were completed in the late 1950's, both structures give a glipse into Wright's increasingly Modern sensibility associated with his Usonian period.

For more information on the Frank Lloyd Wright Symposium, download the brochure here.