Call Me Moderne

Architecture plays a starring role, almost as stunning as Clive Owen himself, in the recently-released-on-DVD suspense film, The International. The movie features numerous buildings with strong vertical and horizontal lines, which makes the scenes filmed in curvilinear landscapes all the more prominent.

One of these is the big shootout in the Guggenheim, and since director Tom Tykwer and his crew couldn’t shoot up the real Guggenheim, they re-created the museum’s interior for the film.

The Guggenheim was completed in 1959, six months after the death of its architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Runaway Mother

Loving Frank, Nancy Horan

A fictionalized account of Frank Lloyd Wright’s relationship with Mamah Bothwick Cheney, the wife of client Edwin Cheney. She was an educated sufferagette and mother of two; Wright was an architect on the rise and married father of six. They ran off together, which ruined her reputation although it didn’t seem to make much of a dent in his. Mamah was vilified as a bad mother and then bigger tragedies ensued.