Johnson Wax Building - Frank Lloyd Wright
An architectural masterpiece by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Johnson Wax Headquarters is the world headquarters and administration building of S. C. Johnson & Son in Racine, Wisconsin. Designed by American architect Wright for the company's president, Herbert F. Hib Johnson, the building was constructed from 1936 to 1939. Also known as the Johnson Wax Administration Building, it and the later built Johnson Wax Research Tower were designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
The Johnson Wax Headquarters was set in an industrial zone and Wright decided to create a sealed environment lit from above, as he had done with the Larkin Administration Building. The building features Wright's interpretation of the streamlined Art Moderne style popular in the 1930s. In a break with Wright's earlier Prairie School structures, the building features many curvilinear forms and subsequently required over 200 different curved Cherokee red bricks to create the sweeping curves of the interior and exterior. The mortar between the bricks is raked in traditional Wright-style to accentuate the horizontality of the building.
The warm, reddish hue of the bricks was used in the polished concrete floor slab as well; the white stone trim and white dendriform columns create a subtle yet striking contrast. All of the furniture, manufactured by Steelcase, was designed for the building by Wright and it mirrored many of the building's unique design features.
The entrance is within the structure, penetrating the building on one side with a covered carport on the other. The carport is supported by short versions of the steel-reinforced dendriform (tree-like) concrete columns that appear in the Great Workroom. The low carport ceiling creates a compression of space that later expands when entering the main building where the dendriform columns rise over two stories tall. This rise in height as one enters the administration building creates a release of spatial compression making the space seem much larger than it is. Compression and release of space were concepts that Wright used in many of his designs.
Throughout the Great Workroom, a series of the thin, white dendriform columns rise to spread out at the top, forming a ceiling, the spaces in between the circles are set with skylights made of Pyrex glass tubing. At the corners, where the walls usually meet the ceiling, the glass tubes continue up, over and connect to the skylights creating a clerestory effect and letting in a pleasant soft light. The Great Workroom is the largest expanse of space in the Johnson Wax Building, and it features no internal walls. It was originally intended for the secretaries of the Johnson Wax company, while a mezzanine holds the administrators.
The Johnson Wax Administration Building is one of the many Wright buildings which are featured as part of the new Frank Lloyd Wright Trail celebrating the 150 anniversary of the artists birth. #FLW150 The trail includes: The SC Johnson Wax Administration Building, The Johnson Research Laboratory, The Golden Rondelle Theater, The First Unitarian Society Meeting House, Wyoming Valley School Cultural Arts Center, Monona Terrace in Madison, and more. Wisconsin is home to more than 40 Frank Lloyd Wight structures, so come visit Wisconsin and explore the new FLW trail.
For information on the Frank Lloyd Wright Trail, visit: tourinfo@travelwisconsin.com - 800-432-8747
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Frank Lloyd Wright on The Corner Window & The Architecture of Freedom & Democracy
Wright speaks on the importance of corner windows as innovation, the destruction of the box, and the architecture of freedom and democracy as it relates to America.
This year Wisconsin is celebrating the 150 anniversary of Frank Lloyds Wright's birth with the opening of the FLW trail. Wright's home state of Wisconsin contains extraordinary works by Wright that are open to the public.
Frank Lloyd Wright's home Taliesin is open as are the Visitor Centre, Studios, School, Theatre and the Taliesin grounds. As well the amazing Johnson Wingspread home, the SC Johnson Administration Building, the SC Johnson Research Tower, and the Golden Rondelle Theatre are also open for tours.
Other extraordinary Frank Lloyd Wright buildings on the trail include; The First Unitarian Society Meeting House, Wyoming Valley School Cultural Arts Center, Monona Terrace in Madison, and more. Wisconsin is home to more than 40 Frank Lloyd Wight structures, so come to Wisconsin and explore the new FLW trail.
For information on the Frank Lloyd Wright Trail please visit: tourinfo@travelwisconsin.com - 800-432-8747 (toll free) #FLW150 #franklloydwright #architecture
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Sandy Weidner - Resilient Communities Mayoral Candidate Interview
The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread in Racine, Wisconsin hosts conversations bringing different perspectives and ideas together to build deeper understanding and bridges to new solutions on issues and topics that matter to our community. Our conversations with the 2017 Racine Mayoral candidates, Sandy Weidner and Cory Mason, allowed them to share their thoughts on a range of topics related to our community's resilience and give voters greater insight into their leadership approach on the issues and opportunities facing the City of Racine.
Our Resilient Communities Briefing Series was streamed live through our Facebook page and had over 7500 views - a far greater number than traditionally reached by candidate debate forums. That's why we're posting our podcasts - both in video and audio formats - so more people throughout the community can see and hear what the candidates have to say at a time and place that's more convenient for them. Our hope is these conversations not only reach more people, but also encourage them to vote in this election.
The Stone House - Visiting Kentuck Knob
Chef Jeremy Critchfield takes us along our journey to another Frank Lloyd Wright home - Kentuck Knob, also known as the Hagan House.
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Around the Corner with John McGivern | Program | Around The Map In SE Wisconsin (#606)
[Latest Airdate: November 2, 2017]
[Original Airdate: February 9, 2017]
This episode is not community specific. What we chose were 12 organizations/places/people we wanted to cover in southeastern Wisconsin because... well, because we wanted to. The producers all got to pick based on their own curiosities. The only rule was that we had to be able to shoot at least three segments in one day and be back to the station in time for dinner every night. What does it say about a group who chooses Jones Island, a bell museum, Frank Lloyd Wright, pizza, ice cream and the Zoo? It says that apparently we're not all interested in the same things, but we are all really glad this worked out because we loved it. A special thanks to everyone in this episode for saying Yes instead of Why? Whether by region or by community, it's awesome to work in Wisconsin!
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Linear B | Wikipedia audio article
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Linear B
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Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1450 BC. It is descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek. Linear B, found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos, Cydonia, Pylos, Thebes and Mycenae, disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean civilization during the Late Bronze Age collapse. The succeeding period, known as the Greek Dark Ages, provides no evidence of the use of writing. It is also the only one of the Bronze Age Aegean scripts to have been deciphered, by English architect and self-taught linguist Michael Ventris.Linear B consists of around 87 syllabic signs and over 100 ideographic signs. These ideograms or signifying signs symbolize objects or commodities. They have no phonetic value and are never used as word signs in writing a sentence.
The application of Linear B appears to have been confined to administrative contexts. In all the thousands of clay tablets, a relatively small number of different hands have been detected: 45 in Pylos (west coast of the Peloponnese, in southern Greece) and 66 in Knossos (Crete). It is possible that the script was used only by a guild of professional scribes who served the central palaces. Once the palaces were destroyed, the script disappeared.
Linear B
Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1450 BC. It is descended from the older Linear A, an undeciphered earlier script used for writing the Minoan language, as is the later Cypriot syllabary, which also recorded Greek. Linear B, found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos, Cydonia, Pylos, Thebes and Mycenae, disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean civilization during the Bronze Age Collapse. The succeeding period, known as the Greek Dark Ages, provides no evidence of the use of writing. It is also the only one of the three Linears to be deciphered, by young English architect and self-taught linguist, Michael Ventris.
Linear B consists of around 87 syllabic signs and over 100 ideographic signs. These ideograms or signifying signs symbolize objects or commodities. They have no phonetic value and are never used as word signs in writing a sentence.
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#6 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals-Clean Water and Sanitation-Lynn Broaddus-Broa
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Lynn Broadview joins Jonathan on the ESG Players Podcast to discuss #6 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals-Clean Water & Sanitation
Lynn E. Broaddus, Ph.D., M.B.A., President of Broadview Collaborative
Lynn made a decision early on to focus on natural resource sustainability. Her career includes work in energy conservation and efficiency, biodiversity, land conservation, water resources, and education. These experiences are underpinned by scientific rigor and a tireless belief that good people working together can make big differences.
Lynn formed Broadview Collaborative, Inc. in 2014 to increase her impact on the resiliency and sustainability issues that drive her. While this is her first private sector endeavor, it builds on her history of creating new efforts and retooling struggling ones. During her six years with The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread she was charged with re-shaping the Foundation’s environmental programming in a way that would bring national stature to the Racine, Wisconsin-based foundation. The result was Charting New Waters, a nationally recognized and applauded endeavor. Over the span of six years, she convened hundreds of national leaders from government, business and non-governmental organizations, and academic experts to explore the intersections of freshwater and climate change, infrastructure and built environment, agriculture, energy, finance and public health. The initiative resulted in more than a dozen direct publications on U.S. water management needs, and spurred additional partnerships and initiatives that left the field undeniably changed, and more united.
Prior to joining The Johnson Foundation, Lynn served for six years as executive director of Milwaukee Riverkeeper®, a water advocacy organization that she grew into a strong, nationally respected voice with what may be the largest volunteer base of any similar group in the country. Before joining Riverkeeper, she spent 12 years working for The Nature Conservancy and a related organization, NatureServe, where in her role as director of U.S. Network Partnerships she negotiated the first set of national data sharing agreements among the nation’s Natural Heritage Programs in all 50 states and the Navajo Nation. Earlier career experiences included energy conservation program work in the low-income neighborhoods of Lawrence, MA, and teaching biology and mathematics in rural Virginia.
Lynn hosts On The Water Front, a blog dedicated to exploring a broad spectrum freshwater and sustainability topics, and tweets on water and other sustainability issues as @LynnBroaddus. She is a sought-after speaker, panelist, and moderator for national forums, and can be reached at LBroaddus@BroadviewCollaborative.com
Clean, accessible water for all is an essential part of the world we want to live in and there is sufficient fresh water on the planet to achieve this. However, due to bad economics or poor infrastructure, millions of people including children die every year from diseases associated with inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene.
Water scarcity, poor water quality and inadequate sanitation negatively impact food security, livelihood choices and educational opportunities for poor families across the world. At the current time, more than 2 billion people are living with the risk of reduced access to freshwater resources and by 2050, at least one in four people is likely to live in a country affected by chronic or recurring shortages of fresh water. Drought in specific afflicts some of the world’s poorest countries, worsening hunger and malnutrition. Fortunately, there has been great progress made in the past decade regarding drinking sources and sanitation, whereby over 90% of the world’s population now has access to improved sources of drinking water.
To improve sanitation and access to drinking water, there needs to be increased investment in management of freshwater ecosystems and sanitation facilities on a local level in several developing countries within Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Southern Asia, Eastern Asia and South-Eastern Asia.
Parents of the Field: Dan Druckman
Daniel Druckman’s work originally arose from his initial interest in negotiation behavior, but his writings cover a huge range of topics within that overall focus, including work on nationalism, the politics of base rights negotiation, the practice of peacekeeping and political conflict. His career included work for research organizations and in academia.
Office Hours: Evaluating/Integrating Data from Needs Assessment, Environmental Scan, & Gaps Analysis
Three Project AWARE state representatives describe their approaches to obtaining needs assessment (NA) and environmental scan (ES) data, and procedures for completing the gap analysis (GA). The panelists provide an overview of the utility of the NA/ES/GA for developing the Coordination and Integration Plan. Facilitators and panelists engage grantees in problem solving conversations around various challenges they may be encountering related to the quality of their NA/ES/GA data and the application of their NA/ES/GA data to goal development. Practical tools are shared with participants, including a checklist to assist with determining whether NA/ES/GA data are sufficient for beginning the Coordination and Integration Plan or if additional NA/ES/GA data are needed. Presented by Meagan O'Malley& Christina Pate, NITT-TA Center; John Bowser, Wisconsin Project AWARE; Michelle Maike, Washington Project AWARE; and Mary Steady, New Hampshire Project AWARE.
These webinars are supported by the SAMHSA Now is the Time Technical Assistance (NITT-TA) Center.
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Original Webinar Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2015