Arizona State University : Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium (Tempe, AZ) : Detail of one lamp on the ramp
- Creator:
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
- Published/Created:
- 1200 South Forest Avenue, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
1962-1964 - Physical Description:
- 80 x 250 x 300 ft (length)
- Date Depicted:
- 8/15/1992
1950 AD - 2010 AD - Materials:
- concrete
- Notes:
- Is named for Dr. Grady Gammage, President of Arizona State University (ASU) from 1933 to 1959. It is considered to be the last public commission of architect Frank Lloyd Wright (and reputed to be based on Wright's drawings for an opera house in Baghdad, Iraq, of which, legend has it, Wright lost the blueprint in a gambling wager with Gammage). Groundbreaking took place and construction on Gammage began on May 23, 1962. It took 25 months to complete. The built-on-time, under-budget building opened in 1964 with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The structure measures 300 feet (91 m) long by 250 feet (76 m) wide by 80 feet (24 m) high. Fifty concrete columns support the round roof with its pattern of interlocking circles. Twin "flying buttress" pedestrian ramps extending 200 feet (61 m) from the north and east sides of the structure connect the building to the parking lot. The auditorium seats a total of 3,017 people on its main floor, grand tier and balcony.
- Variant Titles:
- Gammage Auditorium
- Topics:
- Architecture -- United States -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Modern
Modernist - Culture:
- American
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-WFL-GG-C7
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
auditoriums (AAT)
schools: universities (buildings) (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Performing arts; cultural construction buildings; performing arts buildings; auditoriums; buildings; performing arts buildings; concert halls lamp
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Module Three
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
8/15/1992 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4152
- OID:
- 10162191
- PID:
- digcoll:1791927