conf: Doing More With Less, by Design (FLW Foundation)

Wright group plans design conference

Kate Nolan
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 1, 2005 12:00 AM

SCOTTSDALE - Will Bruder, winner of dozens of international, national 
and regional architecture awards, will keynote the Frank Lloyd Wright 
Foundation's fall conference, "Doing More With Less, by Design."

To be held Nov. 2-5 at Taliesin West in Scottsdale, the event will focus 
on what good design means for architects and the public.

"In selecting the theme, we kept in mind where the foundation wants to 
go in the future," foundation executive Beverly Hart said. The 
foundation advances the principles of Frank Lloyd Wright, who died in 
1959. Bruder, who designed the award-winning Burton Barr Central Library 
in Phoenix, will join other top designers in a series of talks and 
seminars that explore how people can live better and more simply through 
good design.

German engineer Werner Sobek; architect Vernon Swaback, author of The 
Creative Community; and Dan Hoffman, who led several architecture 
programs at the Cranbrook Educational Community in Michigan, will be 
among the speakers.

The program will examine topics related to Wright's principles of 
organic architecture and beyond. Tours of Taliesin West will be 
available to those who attend.

The event concludes with the group's annual fund-raiser, the Great 
Treasure Hunt, on Nov. 5 at Taliesin West.

The fee of $250 covers most lectures and tours, but some events and 
activities require additional fees. Registration is required. To sign 
up, contact Hart at request @franklloydwright.org or (480) 627-5373. 
Registration materials are available at www.franklloydwright.org.