Grady Gammage Auditorium, an imaginative creation of legendary archictect Frank Lloyd Wright at Arizona State University in Tempe

The process that would lead to the multipurpose performance hall began in 1957 when incumbent ASU President Grady Gammage desired a unique auditorium for the university's main campus. In 1956, a collapsed roof rendered a facility that served as an auditorium and gymnasium unusable, propelling the movement toward a new auditorium. Gammage recruited his friend Wright to take part in its design, which he based on one for an opera house in Bagdhad after the 1958 Iraqi coup d'etat. Both Wright and Gammage died in 1959, and the auditorium's design was completed by Wright's protégé, William Wesley Peters.
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Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.