Frank Lloyd Wright's California HousesAlways an experimenter, in the 1920's Wright debuted an innovative building system with four striking houses in the Los Angeles area. This book features these internationally renowned compositions and a fifth that shares their exotic form.The Wright-at-a-Glance series showcases the work of one of the world's best-known architects. Comprising twelve books in all, this series offers an overview of Wright's life, buildings, and designs. |
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APPRENTICES archaeological ARCHETYPE PRESS architectural area adjoining art glass windows Balconies Bedrooms are stacked block houses block pattern block walls built cantilever CARLA LIND ceiling chimney colonnade concrete blocks create new patterns decade dining room dramatic ENNIS HOUSE exotic fireplace flora foothills forms Frank Lloyd Wright FREEMAN HOUSE garage geometric golden Hollyhock house 1921 Hollywood HOUSE LA MINIATURA HOUSE LOS ANGELES houses was designed innovative building system interior interwoven intricate landscape living area living room living space LLOYD WRIGHT'S CALIFORNIA main floor mass inside massed to create Mayan metal metric Millard house molds mortar mosaic opposite pact PASADENA patterned blocks pierced piers POMEGRANATE ARTBOOKS pool Prairie houses pre-Columbian primitive ravine reinforcing rods retaining walls Robert L Rudolph Schindler solid steel steep hillside stone STORER HOUSE structural terned terraces TEXTILE TEXTILE-BLOCK houses TEXTILE-BLOCK SYSTEM textures Usonian houses windows and doors wood Wright designed Wright provided WRIGHT'S CALIFORNIA HOUSES