The film director, Michael Miner and Jim Berger, the boy who asked FLW for plans, with the built doghouse
The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH and AIA NH have joined forces to host a film screening of Romanza: The Structures of California Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on June 28th at 4pm in the museum. As a special treat, the director of the film, Michael Miner will introduce his film and take questions after the screening.
The director had unprecedented access to every California Wright-designed building, and the movie journeys all over the state, visiting more than 25 different projects as well as providing material on some of Wright’s un-built California work. The film begins with a 1909 Montecito summer home that began Wright’s fifty year relationship with California which lasted until his death and produced works that ranged from modest to grand and a mix of public and private buildings. In the film, it was said that “nowhere did he demonstrate his passion better for the art form that is architecture than in California” . In Los Angeles the film documents the textile block houses famous for their appearances in Hollywood films, in San Francisco, viewers see a building designed as a “glass of champagne” and a home in Carmel Bay that takes its shape from the prow of a ship. Traveling with the director is the only Frank Lloyd Wright doghouse which was designed for a twelve-year old boy who wrote and asked for a doghouse to match the Wright-designed home he lived in with his parents.
Romanza is the third film in a series of documentary films that cover different theme of structures from Frank Lloyd Wright’s career. The first is A Child of the Sun: The West Campus of Florida Southern College and the second is Sacred Spaces: The Houses of Worship Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The films can be purchased for individual viewing from www.designedbyfranklloydwright.com
