bachman-wilson house

The back of Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman-Wilson House installed on the campus of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Curator Dylan Turk
Modern house with flat roof, white and wooden exterior, set in a green landscape with trees, a walkway, and a bench.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Bachman-Wilson House in Millstone, New Jersey in 1954—a masterwork of Usonian principles, built low to the earth with mahogany, glass, and red concrete that dissolved the boundary between shelter and forest. Decades later, repeated flooding along the Millstone River put the house in irreversible danger. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art intervened, acquiring the structure and making the extraordinary decision to dismantle it board by board, beam by beam, and rebuilt it 1,400 miles away on the museum’s wooded campus in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Dylan was brought on at that moment. Serving as curator at Crystal Bridges with specialization in architecture, he was charged with leading the reinterpretation of the house in its entirety—the curatorial vision, the staging, the educational materials, and the holistic framework for how this irreplaceable work of American architecture would be responsibly brought back to life for the public.

Board and batten mahogany walls and ceiling, wrap the mass of this Frank Lloyd Wright designed bedroom, glass crank casement window, built in desk, and ornamental carved windows easily identify the characteristics of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Bright living room with large glass sliding doors opening to a green outdoor view, wooden ceiling, modern furniture including a pink chair, blue chair, and teal sofa, with a coffee table and decorative pillows.
Interior of a modern house with wooden walls, large windows, a fireplace, a green upholstered long sofa, a red armchair, and a wooden dining table.
Small bedroom with wood-paneled ceiling and walls, a pink bed with striped pillow, a small wooden table with a plant, a green cushioned chair, and a window with four panes showing trees outside.
Wood-paneled kitchen with built-in oven, gas stove, and large windows.
the second floor living room Usonian house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the publication by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Dylan also authored the accompanying publication, contributing a lasting report to Wright scholarship and preservation literature. To hold that weight—to shape how the public would first encounter one of Wright’s most intimate residential achievements—was a rare and formative responsibility. The house’s rhythm, materiality, and mastery of light remain among the most enduring design lessons of Dylan’s career.