The EV narrative continues.
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The Book Page
Frank Lloyd Wright On The West Coast, Mark Anthony Wilson, c. 2014.
- Chapter 1: A Prairie Among the Palms: The Stewart House, Santa Barbara County, 1909
- Chapter 2: A Mayan Temple in Hollywood: The Barnsdall (Hollyhock) House, Los Angeles, 1917 - 21
- Chapter 3: Pre-Columbian Monuments in Concrete: Four Southern California Houses, 1923 0 25
- Chapter 4: From the Coast to the Desert: Other Southern California Houses
- Chapter 5: A Unique Usonian: The Buehler House, Orinda, California, 1948 - 49 (Orinda, CA: just a few miles east of Oakland, CA)
- Chapter 6: From Carmel to the Central Valley: Other Northern California Houses
- Chapter 7: A Gift to These Golden Hills: The Marin County Civic Center, 1957 -69
- Chapter 8: From Commerce to Religion: Other Public Buildings in California
- Chapter 9: North by Northwest: Houses in Oregon and Washington
- Appendix: List of Frank Lloyd Wright's West Coast Buildings Open to the Public
Photographs:
- Millard House, Pasadena, CA, 1923 - 24, view from garden with guesthouse toward mainhouse.
- Robie House
- Marin County Civic Center
Usonian: Wright's name for his simple modular type of housing he promoted as being adaptable to varied environments and affordable for the average middle-class family in the Northwest (Washington state and Oregon). Usonian homes all built in the 1950s during the last decade of his life.
Most of his California houses were also built in the Usonian style, between 1938 - 1958.
Taleisin: his home in Wisconsin.
Chicago's Hyde Park. Prairie School homes, the first modern homes.
"Breaking the box," page 10.
Notes will be continued elsewhere.
The Robie House, 5757 South Woodlawn Avenue in Hyde Park.
Frank Lloyd Wright: 1867 - 1959.
Born just after the US Civil War; 48y/o during WWI; and 78 years old in 1945, WWII.
Whitefish, Montana, link here.
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