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Travel + Leisure
22-05-2025
- Business
- Travel + Leisure
This Cruise Line Lets You Visit Iconic Frank Lloyd Wright Sites as You Voyage Along the Great Lakes
While beach breaks, ziplining, and walking tours are common shore excursions on a cruise ship's itinerary, architectural immersions are less so, particularly in the U.S. To geek out over design, cruisers would need to drop anchor in Milan or Barcelona. But a new partnership between Victory Cruise Lines and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation is changing that by bringing architectural enthusiasts to some of the late architect's sites in Illinois and Michigan. The journeys will be available starting May 2025, onboard Victory I and Victory II . Fresh off a 2024 refurbishment, each ship can accommodate up to 190 guests in 95 staterooms. There are lectures on board that educate travelers about Wright's work, life, and legacy—all curated by the Foundation's Taliesin Institute. Off board, there are shore excursions to his sites are available in three ports: Muskegon, Michigan; Chicago; and Detroit, Michigan. These are available on some of the 10-Night 'Toronto to Chicago' voyages, the 10-Night 'Chicago to Toronto' voyages and the 15-Night 'Chicago Roundtrip'. Interior of a Victory Cruise Lines stateroom. Chicago is an epicenter of Wright's work, as he launched his career in downtown Chicago working as a draftsman with Louis Sullivan. While ships dock at Chicago's Navy Pier, travelers can visit four sites via the 'Frank Lloyd Wright: His Home & Vision for the Future' excursion: Unity Temple, which Wright designed between 1905 and 1908 in the near-Western suburb of Oak Park. The Frederick C. Robie House, a 9,000-square-foot example of Wright's Prairie School Style completed in 1910 near the University of Chicago on the city's South Side. Wright's home and studio in Oak Park, where he raised his family. It is also the largest concentration of Wright homes worldwide, home to 25 of his projects. The Rookery Building, designed by Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root in 1888 in the Loop. (Wright was tasked to remodel the lobby in 1905). In addition to Illinois, cruisers can also visit Wright sites in another Great Lakes state, Michigan. From the Muskegon port of call, one excursion visits the Meyer May House in Grand Rapids, a Prairie School Style home completed in 1909, and the David M. and Hattie Amberg House Wright designed in 1911. Journeys start from $5,779 per person and you can learn more or book your sailing at
Axios
09-04-2025
- General
- Axios
How Frank Lloyd Wright tamed the Arizona heat
Legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright mastered climate-compatible home design decades before sustainability entered the national conversation, per a Bloomberg deep-dive published last month. Why it matters: Phoenix summers are getting hotter and Wright's building techniques could help Arizonans keep cool without overrelying on AC. The big picture: Wright, an OG snowbird who wintered in Arizona from 1929 to 1959, designed a dozen structures around the Valley, including his iconic Taliesin West estate in Scottsdale. Zoom in: Architecture experts and historians told Bloomberg that Wright practiced "organic architecture," meaning he built structures to complement the surrounding landscape and mimic nature. Examples include: Incorporating alternating patterns of light and shadow to create shade, which was inspired by Saguaro cactus pleats; Orienting his buildings to work with natural air flow to create cooling drafts; Building the David and Gladys Wright House on pillars so the living space caught the natural desert breeze; And creating exterior walls via massive slabs of cobbled desert rock to absorb heat and transfer it slowly indoors during cool desert nights. The bottom line: While Wright's techniques can inspire sustainable design today, Fred Prozzillo, head of preservation for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, noted that sustainability was not Wright's goal.
