The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy’s Roland Reisley Grant provides financial assistance to support projects related to experiencing and promoting the understanding of sensory and experiential aspects of buildings or structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
This grant is named in honor of Roland Reisley, a founding Board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. Born in 1924, Roland has remained living in his Wright-designed house since it was completed in 1952. Roland felt that Frank Lloyd Wright had the intuitive genius to enable him to visualize and design spaces that moved people. These spaces were not just functionally sound, but psychologically transformative as well. Roland gives no small measure of his longevity to living in a Wright-designed house and experiencing its beauty and joy every day.
This award seeks to support efforts whose objective is to examine the intangible power of Wright’s architecture on mood, feelings and inspiration. Successful applicants will produce work or research examining or interpreting what it means to have a deeply personal experience in Wright-designed spaces.
