Tempe Historic Property Survey
| Survey Number: |
HPS-140 |
| Name: |
Grady Gammage
Memorial Auditorium |
| Location: |
Mill & Apache Boulevard
(ASU campus) |
| Year Built: |
1964 |
| Architectural Style: |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
Arizona State University's distinctive performing arts center was the last public
building designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Fifty concrete columns support
the round roof with its pattern of interlocking circles. It is actually a redesigned
adaptation of Wright's unbuilt Bagdad Opera House. The auditorium is associated with both
Wright and Grady Gammage, a long-time president of Arizona State University. Gammage
directed campus growth following World War II, which culminated in the renaming of Arizona
State College to Arizona State University, in 1958. Both Wright and ASU President Grady
Gammage died before the project was completed in 1964.
This building is expressive of Wright's theories of architecture, and is a masterpiece
of circular design.
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