Frank Lloyd Wright’s Modern Masterpiece, Unity Temple is an homage to America’s most renowned architect. The film pulls back the curtain on Wright’s first public commission in the early 1900’s to the painstaking efforts to restore the 100 year old building back to its original beauty. The dedicated team of historians, craftspeople, members of the Unitarian congregation and Unity Temple Restoration Foundation reveal the history of one of Wright’s most innovative buildings that merged his love of architecture with his own spiritual values. The film intersperses the architect’s philosophies with quotes narrated by Brad Pitt.
Cinematography
Light worshipping those concrete walls like it's holy
Score
Brad Pitt's voice = unexpected ASMR experience
Director
Lauren Levine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Unity Temple was Wright's first public commission and his only surviving public building from that era.
The building's 'ugly' concrete was revolutionary—Wright called it 'boulder' to sound poetic about cheap materials.
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