FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT CHICAGO TO FALLINGWATER MAY 17-29, 2020 TOUR LEADER: DR MATTHEW LAING

Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, Fallingwater (1939)

Overview Academy Travel’s Frank Lloyd Wright from Chicago to Fallingwater tour offers a unique opportunity to view 16 buildings designed by Wright, including suburban homes, rural villas, churches and commercial offices. Inspired by nature, forward looking, varied and highly original, Wright’s works continues to astound us. A journey through Wright’s architecture is also a journey through modern America from the ‘Gilded Age’ of the 1890s to ‘mid-century modern’ when American architecture, design, art and literature dominated the world stage. The tour also visits buildings by Wright’s predecessors, contemporaries and followers, including Daniel Burnham, Louis B Sullivan, Mies Van Der Rohe and Norman Forster. We begin with four nights in Chicago, a city brimming with fine architecture and fine art, and where Wright developed his Prairie Style of architecture. We then travel north to Milwaukee, visiting the SC Johnson Wax Administration Building, and on to Madison, Wisconsin to see some of Wright’s commercial work as well as Taliesin, his beloved estate. Our next stop is Buffalo, near Niagara Falls, to visit the Darwin Martin complex of houses. Travelling to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, we conclude the tour with a private in-depth tour of America’s most famous house, Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Accommodation is in comfortable four-star hotels, with breakfast daily and several meals at carefully chosen restaurants included.

Your tour leader Dr Matthew Laing has a PhD in American History from the Australian National University and is currently with Monash University. He has a comprehensive knowledge of the history of the United States, providing vital context for understanding the remarkable art, architecture and design of the 20th century.

For Matthew, the art and design of the USA has a global significance. “The United States has profoundly influenced modern architectural and design movements, and its echoes can be

seen everywhere in Australia”, he comments. “From Walter Burley and Marion Mahoney Griffin's Chicago-school design for Canberra, to the William Levitt-style post-war surburbia in Melbourne, to the Frank Gehry building at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia owes much to American design ideas.” On tour, Matthew particularly likes to point out the link between history, society and the visual arts. “Architecture and design are built expressions of historical ideas. The cutting-edge designs of today become the tangible representations of our history and thoughts.”

“This was an excellent tour. Matthew went beyond the norm. Everything moved smoothly – most enjoyable.”

– Frank Lloyd Wright: Chicago to Fallingwater, May 2018

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT CHICAGO TO FALLINGWATER

Tour dates: May 17-29, 2020

Tour leader: Dr Matthew Laing

Tour Price: $8,970 per person, twin share

Single Supplement: $1,640 for sole use of double room

Booking deposit: $500 per person

Recommended airline: Qantas or United

Maximum places: 20

Itinerary: Chicago (4 nights), Milwaukee (1 night), Madison (2 nights), Buffalo (2 nights), Pittsburgh (3 nights)

Date published: April 30, 2019

Enquiries and bookings

For further information and to secure a place on this tour please contact Jamal Fairbrother at Academy Travel on 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 (outside Sydney) or email jamal@academytravel.com.au

Wright visits his 1910 Robie House in

Chicago, Ill., March 18, 1957

Key Sites Visited:

See over 15 masterworks spanning seven decades of incredible creativity.

UNITY TEMPLE (1905) A beautiful experiment in modern materials and religious design; our tour takes us through this recently restored icon in depth.

WRIGHT'S HOME AND STUDIO (1889) Wright began his career in Oak Park and his first studio is one of his earliest masterpieces. We’ll take a private tour of the home and studio, as well have a walking tour of the Oak Park neighbourhood where many of his earliest houses are to be found.

DARWIN MARTIN COMPLEX (1903) Built for one of his most faithful patrons, the Darwin Martin House is a revolutionary pioneer of many concepts of modern residential architecture, including an open floor plan and nearly 400 art glass windows.

ROBIE HOUSE (1909) A landmark of the Prairie-Style on the campus of the University of Chicago. We’ll enjoy a private evening cocktail reception here.

TALIESIN (1911-1925) Wright's Wisconsin estate and architectural school, brimming with innovations and experiments. Our in-depth tour takes in his entire property and its many buildings.

SC JOHNSON WAX HEADQUARTERS (1936) Wright reinvents himself in the streamlined modern style here, and its great work room has been described as the 'most beautiful room in America'. Our special tour takes us through this still-working corporate headquarters.

JACOBS HOUSE I (1937) The first of his Usonian homes and forerunner of the ranch house, this influential Wright design is privately owned by a former art professor, who will take us through it.

FALLINGWATER (1939) Wright's unrivalled masterpiece set upon a waterfall in the Bear Run of Western Pennsylvania, for where we'll enjoy a private, before-hours visit to give the best possible access to the house and the least crowds.

KENTUCK KNOB (1953) From the twilight of his career and one of his most mature Usonian creations, our tour here will give us insight into the lasting legacy, and struggle to conserve, Wright’s work.

Detailed itinerary Included meals are shown with the symbols B, L and D.

Sunday May 17 Arrive

Arrive in Chicago and meet your tour leader and fellow travellers for a welcome drink. Overnight Chicago

Monday May 18 Downtown Chicago

The Great Fire of 1871 destroyed the entire Chicago CBD, leaving the way open for architects to design a new and modern city. The first steel-framed high-rise building rose in 1885 and the skyline today is densely packed with skyscrapers, many by renowned architects. Our walking tour this morning takes us past some of the city’s most iconic buildings. We visit the lobby of the Rookery Building, the masterpiece of Daniel Burnham and remodelled by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1905. In the afternoon we take the Chicago Architectural Foundation River Cruise to gain an overview of the city’s historic and modern architectural styles. Tonight, we have a welcome dinner and lecture in a local restaurant. Overnight Chicago (B, D)

Tuesday May 19 Frank Lloyd Wright – the early years & Farnsworth House

Today we take a private coach tour of Oak Park. This Chicago suburb is where Frank Lloyd Wright lived and worked and where much of his early work can still be found. We have an interior tour of Wright’s home and studio, which Wright used as his architecture laboratory for his early designs, as well as Unity Temple, one of his most celebrated designs. We then view the numerous examples of Prairie Style architecture in the surrounding neighbourhood. In the afternoon, we drive west to Plano to visit Farnsworth House, the masterpiece of Modernist residential architecture by Mies van der Rohe, set in a beautiful landscape beside the Fox River. Overnight Chicago (B)

Wednesday May 20 Chicago art and architecture

We begin our day with a walk through Millennium Park. Originally occupied by railyards and parking lots, the area was redeveloped into a public space featuring an outdoor concert venue, gardens, restaurants and some spectacular art installations. From here we make our way to the highly-regarded

Above: Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate, reflecting and distorting the city's skyline in Millennium Park

Below: Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House in Oak Park; and American Gothic by Grant Wood in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago

Tour start & finish time

The tour begins at 6.00pm on Sunday May 17, at the Kimpton Gray Hotel, Chicago.

The tour ends in the afternoon on Thursday May 28, at Pittsburgh airport.

Art Institute of Chicago, boasting a fine collection of both European and American painting and over 60 ‘decorated rooms’ – accurately reconstructed furnished interiors from a broad range of times and places. After a private guided tour, there is time to explore the collection independently and a break for lunch. In the afternoon we travel by coach for a private interior visit and evening cocktail reception in Robie House. Our trip takes us through the ‘White City’ – the site of the 1893 World’s Fair. Overnight Chicago (B)

Thursday May 21 SC Johnson Complex

We farewell Chicago and travel north to Racine, Wisconsin to visit the SC Johnson Wax Administration Building and Research Tower, a landmark in commercial office architecture. Subject to availability, we will also tour Wingspread, the expansive low-lying home designed for Herbert Johnson, one of Wright’s great patrons. We continue onto Milwaukee to visit the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wright’s modernist interpretation of Byzantine architecture, and take in some of the history and architecture of the city. Overnight Milwaukee (B)

Friday May 22 Milwaukee

This morning we visit the Milwaukee Art Museum to see the Prairie School Archives and later tour one of Wright’s American System-Built homes. We then travel west for a private visit to Jacobs House I, considered the first ‘Usonian’ home, part of Wright’s ideal of a new world architecture free of previous conventions. We arrive in Madison, Wisconsin, our base for two nights and enjoy dinner in a local restaurant. Overnight Madison (B, D)

Saturday May 23 Taliesin

This remote site in rural Wisconsin was the architect’s home from 1911, and is of central importance to understanding Wright. Taliesin was twice burned down and rebuilt. It was also the scene of the horrific 1914 axe murder of Wright’s lover, her children and several employees. A complex of buildings, combining Prairie Style and oriental influences, it was here that Wright designed Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum and other key works. We tour the house, the grounds and the studio, today an important training centre for emerging American architects. In the afternoon we visit the Unitarian Meeting House, designed by Wright and recognised as one of the most innovative examples of church architecture, followed by a visit to the Monona Terrace Convention Center, designed by Wright but only constructed in 1997. Tonight is a free evening. Overnight Madison (B)

Sunday May 24 Upstate New York

This morning we take a flight from Madison to Buffalo, New York. Located on the shores of Lake Erie, Buffalo rose to

Above: looking up to the chimney seeper and ceiling in Wingspread, also known as the Herbert F. Johnson House; and the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wright’s modernist interpretation of Byzantine architecture

Below: Taliesin – Wright’s home for 30 years

prominence in the early 19th century, when the Erie Canal was completed, connecting Chicago and the Mid-West with the Hudson River, New York and the world beyond. After New York City, Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state. It has many significant buildings, including Louis B Sullivan’s Guaranty Building and Daniel Burnham’s Ellicott Square building. This afternoon we tour some of these sites and dine in a local restaurant. Overnight Buffalo (B, D)

Monday May 25 Wright in Buffalo, Niagara Falls

Between 1903 and 1908 Frank Lloyd Wright built a number of fine examples of his Prairie Style houses in Buffalo, and we survey these today, and visit the Darwin D. Martin House. Most of the houses were built for executives of the Larkin Soap Factory and are located in the Parkside East Historic District, a neighbourhood laid out by renowned American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1876 (Olmstead is also largely responsible for New York’s Central Park). This afternoon we relax at Niagara Falls, one of America’s foremost natural wonders. Overnight Buffalo (B)

Tuesday May 26 The Steel City

We travel along the shores of Lake Erie to visit Graycliff, the summer home built by Wright for Darwin Martin, which is undergoing extensive renovation. We continue onto Pittsburgh this morning, a city whose name is synonymous with the coal and steel industry. The city’s wealth contributed to its rich cultural heritage and few patrons were as generous as Andrew Carnegie, a Pittsburgh-based industrialist who made his fortune out of steel and endowed many of the city’s cultural institutions. In the afternoon we’ll tour some of its historical and architectural highlights. Overnight Pittsburgh (B)

Wednesday May 27 Pittsburgh Philanthropy

Pittsburgh’s history as the industrial heartland of America is matched by its premier cultural, educational and artistic institutions, a legacy of the great industrialists-cum-philanthropists who owed their fortunes to steel, coal and aluminium. Today we’ll sample some of the finest, including a guided tour of the famous Carnegie Museum of Art and its stunning Hall of Architecture, as well as the Heinz Chapel and Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, and the stunning Phipps Conservatory in spring bloom. Overnight Pittsburgh (B, D)

Thursday May 28 Fallingwater private tour We depart Pittsburgh early today and make our way to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater where we enjoy a private interior

Images left: The Unitarian Meeting House, recognised as one of the most innovative examples of church architecture; looking across Niagara Falls; and the cantilevers, with their strong horizontal and vertical lines, are a distinctive feature of Fallingwater

tour of the house. Completed in 1939, its dramatic setting over a river and revolutionary modernist architecture made the house instantly famous. Built for the wealthy Kaufmann family, who made their fortune in retail, Fallingwater was a private retreat until the early 1960’s, when the house and several hundred acres of land around it were entrusted to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. We also visit nearby Kentuck Knob, a private house built for the Hagen family in 1954 and a good example of Wright’s later style. The current owner, Lord Palumbo, has also installed an impressive contemporary sculpture garden on the property. We return to Pittsburgh this evening for a farewell dinner at Altius, overlooking the city. Overnight Pittsburgh (B, D)

Friday May 29 Warhol and farewell

Before departing Pittsburgh today, we visit the Andy Warhol Museum. The sometimes-controversial artist was a Pittsburgh native, and the recently-opened museum contains a broad sampling of his oeuvre. We then head to Pittsburgh airport where our tour ends, allowing for convenient flight connections home to Australia. (B)

Hotels Hotels have been selected principally for their central location.

Chicago, Kimpton Gray Hotel (4 nights) www.kimptonhotels.com

Milwaukee, The Pfister Hotel (1 night) www.thepfisterhotel.com

Madison Wisconsin, Madison Concourse Hotel (2 nights) www.concoursehotel.com

Buffalo, Curtiss Hotel (2 nights) www.curtisshotel.com

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Omni William Penn Hotel (3 nights) www.omnihotels.com

visa requirements In order to enter the United States all travellers are now required to complete an online form, the US government’s Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (or ESTA). Full details are available at https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov. In making the application you will need details of your arriving flight to the USA and also need to provide the name and address of the first hotel we are staying at:

Kimpton Gray Hotel 122 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60603, USA Phone: +1 312-750-9012

The cost of the ESTA is currently USD $14 and you should receive an authorisation within 48 hours. Print a copy of your ESTA and carry it with you on your flight.

Above: the view from the living room towards the west terrace at Fallingwater; and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kentuck Knob Below: Andy Warhol’s self portrait in the Warhol Museum

Tour Price The tour price is $8,970 per person, twin share (land content only). The supplement for a single room is $1,640 per person. A non-refundable deposit of $500 per person is required to secure a place on the tour.

Tour Inclusions Included in the tour price

All accommodation in carefully selected four star hotels All breakfasts, and selected lunches and dinners in

hotels and local restaurants Land travel by air-conditioned coach, rail or taxi as

required Economy class air travel from Madison to Buffalo Extensive background notes Background talks Services of Australian tour leader throughout tour All entrance fees to sites mentioned on itinerary Qualified local guides Tips for all services stated as included in the itinerary Porterage of one piece of luggage at all hotels

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Air travel OPTIONS The tour price quoted is for land content only. For this tour we recommend Qantas or United who have regular flights to the East Coast. Please contact us for further information on competitive Economy, Business and First-Class airfares. Transfers between airport and hotel are included for all passengers booking their flights through Academy Travel. These may be group or individual transfers.

Enquiries & bookings For further information and to secure a place on this tour please contact Jamal Fairbrother at Academy Travel on 9235 0023 or 1800 639 699 (outside Sydney) or email jamal@academytravel.com.au

Weather on Tour May is a great time to travel to the United States. Spring has definitely arrived, but not the summer heat and humidity. Expect daytime temperatures of 15-22 degrees Celsius, dropping to 8-10 in the evenings. It is likely to rain on a few days of the tour, so be sure to pack an umbrella and waterproof jacket.

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This Grade Two tour is designed for people who lead active lives and can comfortably participate in up to five hours of physical activity per day on most days, including longer walking tours, challenging archaeological sites, climbing stairs, embarking and disembarking trains and/or boats, and a more demanding tour schedule with one-night stops or several internal flights. You should be able to: keep up with the group at all times walk for 4-5 kilometres at a moderate pace with only

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