I am very excited, on Friday I was finally able to speak with someone over at the Robie House who gave me the name of the volunteer coordinator for the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. I called them fairly immediately and, after playing phone tag for a little bit, was finally able to sign up for volunteering. I will have to take classes where we learn about the Robie House and Frank Lloyd Wright but then I will be a docent there! This is an exciting opportunity for me, especially considering the fact that, as the volunteer coordinator explained, people go to the Robie House to learn about its architecture. His home in Oak Park seems to be more frequented by people who are interested in his life. After learning this wonderful news I went yesterday to get some books on the house out of the library.
Friday I finally had the first draft of my proposal critiqued. I was nervous at first but there really wasn't much for me to say, they all agreed that the work I have done so far (primarily interviewing) is great but that they need to see more literature review in the thesis (and in the proposal). They had a lot of helpful suggestions on whose work I should include. I ended up buying two books from the Co-op, Yi-Fu Tuan's book entitled Space and Place and Paul Goldberger's Why Architecture Matters and while I was at the library I picked up several books by Zukin and Harvey. One of my good friends here is, not surprisingly, fairly well read and was able to loan me a book by Urry that he said may have some things I would be interested in. I still have a long way to go and a lot of reading to do today though as I have a meeting with my preceptor tomorrow.
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