Please call 708.848.1976 for more information about or to register for any of the listed events.

In The Wright 3, super-sleuths Calder and Petra are drawn into another art mystery, along with Tommy, this time involving Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House. Now, a special The Wright 3 tour of the Robie House is available for kids of all ages. Led by Junior Interpreters, specially trained 5th-10th graders, The Wright 3 tour will allow kids to experience the space and mystery of the Robie House for themselves.

Date: Every Saturday
Time: 1:30 pm
Location: Robie House, 5757 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago.
Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
Admission: $12/adult, $10/youth (11-18) and seniors (65+), $5/youth (4-10)
PURCHASE TICKETS NOW or the day of tour at the Robie House Museum Shop.

Explore the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio to uncover the secrets of his ground-breaking designs. Your family will experience how America's most famous architect "broke the box" of traditional design during this interactive tour.

Time: 1:30 pm
Location: Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio, 951 Chicago Ave., Oak Park
Children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult.
Admission: $12/adult, $10/youth (11-18) and seniors (65+), $5/youth (4-10)
PURCHASE TICKETS NOW or at the Home and Studio Museum Shop.

Free tours of Wright's Oak Park home decorated for the holidays. Led by Junior Interpreters, specially trained 5th through 10th grade students, the tours focus on Wright family celebrations of the Christmas holidays. An adult must accompany children under 8.

Time: 9 am - 11 am, with tours running continuously.
Location: Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, 951 Chicago Ave., Oak Park
Admission: FREE

Table of Twelve Charity Gala

The Signature Room at the 95th®
John Hancock Center
January 21, 2009. 7pm-10pm.

Experience Chicago's amazing architecture from 1128 feet. The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust has been selected to the 2009 Charity of the Month program of the Signature Room at the 95th. The Table of Twelve reception kicks off the program celebrating the 12 selected non-profit organizations to be honored throughout 2009.

Tickets are available at the Signature Room website for $75.

As part of the program, the Preservation Trust has been designated as the non-profit of the month for October 2009, during which the Trust receives 10% of sales from the four-course Signature Selection menu. Founded in 1983 by owners Rick Roman and Nick Pyknis, the Signature Room's community giving program has donated over $560,000 to 184 non-profit organizations in greater Chicago.

Geek's Guide to Wright's Robie House
Saturday, January 10, 2009 (Second Saturdays Themed Tour)

Discover how Wright was ahead of his time with a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) tour. Analyze historic plans and construction photographs, assess building and design technologies of 1910 in contrast to current technologies and explore how Wright?s revolutionary concepts were translated through innovative use of materials and construction.

Time: 4 pm
Location: Robie House Museum Shop, 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago.
Admission: $16 Preservation Trust members, $18 non-members.

Treat yourself to a winter sojourn in the Arizona sun. Enjoy a tour and dinner at Wright's Arizona Biltmore Hotel, and a full-day, all-access tour of Wright's sprawling winter headquarters, Taliesin West. Experience the spectacular Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium on the campus of Arizona State University, originally designed as the Baghdad Opera House and considered to
be Wright's last public commission. Venture into the desert and explore
the stunning Arcosanti community designed by former Frank Lloyd Wright Fellow, Paolo Soleri.

Tour Price
Members: $2295 per person, double occupancy, land only
Non-members: $2495 per person, double occupancy, land only

Enjoy a lecture, coinciding with the Burnham Centennial exhibition, exploring ways in which our society builds upon and/or preserves land. Two speakers will be presenting their opinions on this somewhat controversial topic. John D. Said from the City of Elmhurst’s Department of Planning, Zoning, and Economic Development, will discuss urban planning and specifically Elmhurst’s response to urban planning highlighting the principles and ideas used in the Burnham Plan. Robert Bruegmann, former UIC professor, will present his findings from his recent book titled Sprawl in which he examines the causes of urban sprawl and its historic presence in our nation.

Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Elmhurst Art Museum, 150 Cottage Hill Avenue, Elmhurst IL
Admission: FREE with the price of Museum admission ($4, $3 for seniors)
Call (630) 834-0202 x 110 to reserve your seat by Friday, February 27.

Sponsored by the Elmhurst Art Museum, the City of Elmhurst and the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.

Live out their dreams working in the drafting room of Wright's Oak Park studio. Under the guidance of architects, architecture enthusiasts in this four-evening workshop learn basic drafting techniques and execute frameable floor plans of their creations. For non-architects only.

Location: Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, 951 Chicago Ave., Oak Park
Fee: $850 Preservation Trust members; $900 non-members
For more information, contact the Education Department at 708.848.1976 ext. 227
or learn@gowright.org

Geek's Guide to Wright's Robie House
Saturday, March 14, 2009 (Second Saturdays Themed Tour)

Join art historian Rolf Achilles to wander among the treasures of a few of Chicago’s noted architectural salvage shops. Achilles’ expertise in early twentieth century decorative objects, art glass, hardware, and the like will provide a new perspective on their context and possible re-use. A restaurant lunch is included. Space is limited.

Location: To be determined
Admission: $60 Preservation Trust members, $65 non-members

Experience the decorative arts collection and the intriguing spaces in Wright's Home and Studio. Learn about extraordinary Wright-designed furniture, vases, and light fixtures; Wright's approach to interior design in the Home and Studio; and fine and decorative arts collected by Wright during the early years of his career. Pieces vary from Japanese prints and original nature scene paintings to Arts and Crafts vases.

Time: 10 am
Location: Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, 951 Chicago Ave., Oak park
Admission: $18 Preservation Trust members, $22 non-members
PURCHASE TICKETS NOW

Join us to view a rarely-seen Wright Prairie style interior that is not yet open to the public, the B. Harley Bradley House in Kankakee, IL. In addition, we will view additional buildings designed by Wright and Prairie architect Walter Burley Griffin, and look at the residential housing provided for workers in the Pullman factory on the South side of Chicago (circa 1880).

Experience Wright's famed Fallingwater estate, his late Usonian Kentuck Knob and his stunning Duncan House against a backdrop of springtime beauty in the hills of western Pennsylvania. Delight in an exclusive Fallingwater tour and wine reception, explore the terraces at Kentuck Knob, and relax at the spectacular Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and Spa, designated a Mobil Four-Star and AAA Four-Diamond resort

Tour Price
Members: $1795 per person, double occupancy, land only
Non-members: $1995 per person, double occupancy, land only

View the interiors of eight private homes on the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust's 35th annual housewalk in Oak Park.

Explore nature's role in Wright's designs with a multi-faceted event featuring a special tour of the Home and Studio, an exclusive display of nature drawings from the Preservation Trust's collection and a demonstration on creating Prairie-inspired botanical arrangements.

Time: 4 pm
Location: Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, 951 Chicago Ave., Oak park
Admission: $18 Preservation Trust members, $22 non-members
PURCHASE TICKETS NOW

Join the Preservation Trust on an exciting four-day excursion to the Minneapolis area, home to cutting-edge art and architecture from masters of their craft. Experience a Prairie School architectural gem, the Purcell-Cutts house, designed by the team of William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie. Tour Louis Sullivan's influential National Farmers' Bank, a National Historic Landmark, as well as the stunning Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum designed by a modern master, Frank Gehry.

Tour Price
Members: $1595 per person, double occupancy, land only
Non-members: $1795 per person, double occupancy, land only