{"id":2831,"date":"2018-02-22T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T16:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:25:06","slug":"savethekalita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2831","title":{"rendered":"#SavetheKalita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kht.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2832\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kht-1024x858.jpg\" alt=\"kht\" width=\"660\" height=\"553\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kht-1024x858.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kht-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kht-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kht-1536x1287.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/kht-2048x1716.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s Kalita Humphreys Theater is the single most neglected and mismanaged landmark in Dallas,and its state of disrepair is an ongoing civic travesty. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts\/architecture\/2017\/12\/13\/time-dallas-save-frank-lloyd-wrights-crumbling-kalita-humphreys-theater\">In my most recent long-ish form piece<\/a>, I write about how this has happened, and about the plan to finally do something about it. I hope you will read it, and join the conservancy fighting for to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightinthepark.org\">save this treasure<\/a> for the city. <\/p>\n<p>Other recent stories:<br \/>\n\u2014E<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts\/arts\/2018\/02\/21\/artist-ellsworth-kellys-austin-is-a-temple-of-color-and-a-time-machine\">llsworth Kelly&#8217;s Austin<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/interactives.dallasnews.com\/2017\/the-move\/review.html\">A New Home for the Dallas Morning News<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts\/architecture\/2017\/10\/18\/toyotas-new-plano-headquarters-architectural-camry-safe-boring\">Toyota&#8217;s New HQ: An Architectural Camry<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts\/architecture\/2017\/08\/04\/dallas-museum-art-stop-ignoring-design\">Why Should Dallas Care about Design if its Art Museum Doesn&#8217;t<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturalrecord.com\/articles\/13169-preservationists-protest-changes-to-the-att-building\">Save the AT&#038;T Building<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts\/architecture\/2017\/11\/01\/beautiful-place-dallas-arboretums-new-pavilion-tops-list\">The Arboretum&#8217;s New Glass Pavilion<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts\/architecture\/2017\/09\/21\/tribute-dallas-architect-frank-welch-dean-texas-modernism\">Frank Welch, the Dean of Texas Modernism<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts\/architecture\/2017\/08\/11\/wrong-right-dallas-architecture\">Whats Wrong (and Right) with Dallas Architecture <\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts\/architecture\/2017\/07\/25\/frank-lloyd-wright-stuff-revelations-archive-americas-favorite-architect\">The Wright Stuff<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecturalrecord.com\/articles\/12821-taussig-cancer-center-by-william-rawn-associates-and-stantec-architecture?v=preview\">An Architectural Cure for Cancer<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts\/architecture\/2017\/04\/09\/news-architecture-critic-past-informs-present-evolving-dallas-landscape\">What Frederick Law Olmsted Thought About Dallas<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.architects.org\/architectureboston\/articles\/informed-sources\">Architectural Criticism in a Digital Age<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/interactives.dallasnews.com\/2016\/brookhollow-plaza\/\">Paul Rudolph&#8217;s Towering Achievement<\/a><br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/arts\/architecture\/2016\/12\/09\/open-letter-ben-carson-solve-housing-crisis\">An Open Letter to Ben Carson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s Kalita Humphreys Theater is the single most neglected and mismanaged landmark in Dallas,and its state of disrepair is an ongoing civic travesty. In my most recent long-ish form piece, I write about how this has happened, and about the plan to finally do something about it. I hope you will read it, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=2831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#SavetheKalita<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}