Awen Podcast

What can you learn about Frank Lloyd Wright by stepping inside one of his buildings? At the first Jacobs House in Madison, an open floor plan and living spaces facing the backyard show how Wright's ideas found their way into postwar American homes. At the second Jacobs House, a curving design captures the warmth of the sun, while the reshaped terrain raises questions about what it meant for Wright...

Japan occupied a central place in Frank Lloyd Wright's artistic and architectural development. Long before he first visited the country in 1905, Wright had encountered Japanese art through personal connections, published works, exhibitions, and the Japanese pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. These influences helped shape his ideas about geometry, space, nature, and organ...

Frank Lloyd Wright's Frederick C. Bogk House is one of his most distinctive yet frequently overlooked residential designs. Built in Milwaukee during a turbulent and transitional period in Wright's career, the house brought together Prairie School principles, Arts and Crafts traditions, experimental materials, and architectural ideas drawn from ancient cultures. In this episode, architectural histo...

Most people think they understand Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic architecture - but the real story behind Taliesin, his most personal and mysterious masterpiece, is far more complex than legend suggests. In this eye-opening episode, renowned Wright expert Kieran Murphy pulls back the curtain on the secret history of Taliesin, revealing why it's arguably Wright's most unfinished, misunderstood work, a...