COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
First Christian Church
Image View:
View from the southeast, depicting east elevation and arbor
Creator:
Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959)
Location:
site: Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Location Note:
6750 N. 7th Avenue
Date:
1949-1950 (design); 1971-1973 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Modernist; Modern; Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
church
Work Type 2:
campanile
Classification:
architecture
Material:
stone
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Measurements:
77 ft (height, spire)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; religious
Description:
"In 1949, the Southwest Christian Seminary in Phoenix had commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a Classical University. The drawings for this University were completed and made public in 1950. Drawings included a chapel, administrative buildings, seminar rooms, library, Greek theatre, faculty homes, and were designed for eighty acres. Because the Seminary ceased its operation, the University was never built. The leadership of First Christian church knew of the unused plans and obtained permission from Frank Lloyd Wright's widow to use them for their new building. The construction of the new Worship Center began in 1971. It was completed in 1973, with the church occupying the building in February of that year. The building has been called "One of the ten best church buildings ever built in America" by Harold Wagoner, a former Dean of the Church Architects Guild of America. Mr. Wright's philosophy was that a building in the shape of a triangle was a building in the attitude of prayer. Accordingly, the Worsh
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Three
Identifier:
1A1-WFL-FC-A6
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
First Christian Church
