Frank Lloyd Wright

History and architectural buffs will appreciate this October tour of Pennsylvania that highlights the works of Frank Lloyd Wright as well as historic buildings and art museums in Pittsburgh. The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust leads this trip to the famed Fallingwater and other Wright-designed residences, the Kentuck Knob and the Duncan House. Other itinerary stops include the Balter and Blum houses designed by Peter Berndtson, H.H. Richardson's Allegheny County Courthouse and Henry Clay Frick's Union Arcade and more.

Motion picture executive Brad Kembel and his partner Jimmy Ferrareze have bought the landmark James Eads How House in Silver Lake for $1.3 million. Designed by modern architect Rudolph Schindler in 1925, the restored and updated International Modern-style house had been priced at $4.995 million when movie producer and prolific renovator Michael LaFetra first listed it in 2008. The 2,426-square-foot home, a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, is considered a triumph of Schindler's early career and was influenced by his apprenticeship under Frank Lloyd Wright.

Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's signature Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz., the gated Beverly Hills estate dubbed the Jewelry Box unfolds with hidden compartments and built-in shelves at every turn in Wright's modern and minimalist style. Designed and built by Louis Bosbrooker for himself and his wife in 1962, the home's open floor plan of the living-dining area, Japanese-style folding doors and cabinetry with minimal hardware echo Wright's sensibilities.

Frank Lloyd Wright buffs will love this offer from the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix that celebrates  Taliesen West, one of his most famous works. The hotel opens a free exhibit Thursday of historical photos taken by Pedro Guerrero , whom Wright hired to document construction of the remarkable landmark. From now through April, a special package starting at $229 a night showcases the hotel's exhibit and includes tours of Taliesen West, a museum exhibition of Wright's work and the Biltmore itself.

Motion picture executive Brad Kembel and his partner Jimmy Ferrareze have bought the landmark James Eads How House in Silver Lake for $1.3 million. Designed by modern architect Rudolph Schindler in 1925, the restored and updated International Modern-style house had been priced at $4.995 million when movie producer and prolific renovator Michael LaFetra first listed it in 2008. The 2,426-square-foot home, a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, is considered a triumph of Schindler's early career and was influenced by his apprenticeship under Frank Lloyd Wright.

To open a book and have the Guggenheim Museum curve out at your fingertips isn't quite as breathtaking as visiting the real thing in New York, but it's not a bad substitute. And the other fold-outs in Roland Lewis' oversize " Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-Up" (Thunder Bay Press: 36 pp., $24.95) also echo the striking planes of the iconic architect's work. Stretch the covers and terraces, overhangs, glass corners and additional details surge off the page. One spread, which focuses on Wright's interior design, includes a pop-up version of his chandelier.

Somewhere out there Frank Lloyd Wright may be laughing. At least Brendan Gill hopes so. Gill would hate it if the ghost of that titan of architecture, who died in 1959 at age 92, is moping around the Great Beyond--simply because Gill's new biography paints Wright as a lying, profligate, ruthless, egocentric genius. It certainly would be uncharacteristic, Gill says, noting fondly that embarrassment was one of the few things that did not come easily to his friend Wright.

The remains of architect Frank Lloyd Wright have been exhumed, cremated and sent to Scottsdale, Ariz., to be placed next to those of his widow, Olgivanna, who died earlier this month. County Coroner Clyde Chamberlain Jr. said the cremation took place Monday. Wright was 89 when he died in 1959 in Arizona and was buried in a family cemetery in the valley below Taliesin, the Wright summer home in Wisconsin.

Grant C. Manson, 92, internationally recognized expert on Frank Lloyd Wright. Manson, a native of Chicago, was a lieutenant commander in Navy intelligence during World War II and after the war worked in intelligence for the State Department in Washington. Manson studied at Williams College and Columbia and Harvard universities, and later taught fine arts and architecture at Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Pennsylvania and from 1961 to 1969, at USC.

A good design needn't go to waste. A hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1947 to be built in the Hollywood Hills but never constructed will become the centerpiece of a $100-million golf resort and conference center to be built at Santa Fe, N. M. The resort will feature a 7,000-yard golf course, a 300-seat auditorium, a 6,000-square-foot conference center, performing arts facilities and the expected resort amenities.

To the cognoscenti, Edward H. Fickett was the award-winning architect behind the Port of Los Angeles, La Costa Resort & Spa, Edwards Air Force Base and tens of thousands of airy, affordable tract homes throughout Southern California. To Better Homes & Gardens, he was the " Frank Lloyd Wright of the '50s" -- a visionary who designed mansions for the likes of Joan Crawford and Groucho Marx, and more modest accommodations for regular folks. But to Joycie Fickett, he was simply Eddie, the handsome, life-of-the-party husband who greeted her each morning with an original love song and breakfast in bed. "We laughed every day of our lives together," she said.

History and architectural buffs will appreciate this October tour of Pennsylvania that highlights the works of Frank Lloyd Wright as well as historic buildings and art museums in Pittsburgh. The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust leads this trip to the famed Fallingwater and other Wright-designed residences, the Kentuck Knob and the Duncan House. Other itinerary stops include the Balter and Blum houses designed by Peter Berndtson, H.H. Richardson's Allegheny County Courthouse and Henry Clay Frick's Union Arcade and more.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, the 1924 hilltop mansion that is one of the master's most celebrated residential designs and one of Los Angeles' most revered architectural landmarks, has sold to billionaire Ron Burkle for about $4.5 million, 70% less than its original asking price. Ennis House Foundation Chairwoman Marla Felber confirmed on Saturday the exact price: $4,458,084.58, which represents the organization's balance on a construction loan taken out to repair L.A.'s most prestigious fixer.

Take a walk with genius, and there's no telling where you might end up. One day in 1953, Joe Price found himself strolling Manhattan's East Side with Frank Lloyd Wright, escorting the great architect to his pied à terre at the Plaza Hotel following a visit to the site where Wright hoped to plant his Guggenheim Museum. Suddenly, Wright got a hankering to look at Japanese woodblock prints (he avidly collected them for most of his life, and Japan is the only country outside of North America where he worked)

For its 90th birthday, Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House is getting another round of rejuvenating restoration work, with the partial makeover priced at $4.3 million. Work on the city-owned National Historic Landmark perched on a Hollywood hilltop will begin after Memorial Day; the current five-day schedule of guided tours will be reduced to Fridays through Sundays during the renovations, which are expected to take about 18 months. The project is the third phase in the ongoing restoration of Hollyhock House — the first two phases, from 2000 to 2005, cost $21 million, mainly to repair damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake and stabilize the Barnsdall Park hillside fronting Hollywood Boulevard.

When Frank Lloyd Wright completed the Ennis house in 1924, he immediately considered it his favorite. The last and largest of the four concrete-block houses that Wright built in the Los Angeles area remains arguably the best residential example of Mayan Revival architecture in the country. When The Times' Home section convened a panel of historians, architects and preservationists in 2008 to vote on the region's best houses of all time, the Ennis house ranked ahead of the Modernist Eames house, the John Lautner spaceship-on-a-hill known as Chemosphere and the Arts & Crafts beauty the Gamble house.

Aaron Green, an architect who collaborated on more than 30 projects with Frank Lloyd Wright, died June 5 in San Francisco. He was 84. Green spent most of his professional life in the Bay Area, where he established an office with Wright in 1951. The two worked on their joint projects during the 1940s and 1950s, and Green served as Wright's representative on the West Coast. Among their collaborations was the V.C.

Edgar Tafel Architect, Taliesen fellow was key to saving Wright works Edgar Tafel, 98, an architect who was an original Taliesin fellow credited with saving some of Frank Lloyd Wright's most important works, died Jan. 18 at his home in lower Manhattan, said Robert Silman, a longtime friend and New York structural engineer. The cause was not given. Tafel was the last surviving member of the original Taliesin fellows, a community of young apprentice architects established in 1932 at Wright's home and school in Spring Green, Wis., Silman said.

Reading your Lost L.A. column on Frank Lloyd Wright's La Miniatura in Pasadena ("Want to Buy La Miniatura? Take Note," Sept. 4) brought back a flood of memories from my high school days in 1969. My best friend, Nicki, lived there with her grandfather, an industrialist from another era. Nicki and I spent many hours at La Miniatura hanging out as young teenage girls. I'd walk up the drive past the old Rolls-Royce, and the elderly and elegant butler would come to the door to announce my arrival.