Review: Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House by Donald Hoffmann; Frank Lloyd Wright: Hollyhock House and Olive Hill by Kathryn Smith; Barnsdall House by James Steele

1994 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-248
Author(s):  
Alice T. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Frank Lloyd Wright ◽  
Hollyhock House

Frank Lloyd Wright, Hollyhock House, and Olive Hill, 1914-1924

1979 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Kathryn Smith
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Frank Lloyd Wright ◽  
Apartment Building ◽  
Block System ◽  
Hollyhock House ◽  
Textile Block

The decade 1914-1924 was crucial in the career of Frank Lloyd Wright. He was at work on two major projects, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo and the Barnsdall commission for Olive Hill in Los Angeles. The Imperial Hotel, although vast and impressive in its grandeur as a finished building supervised closely by Wright, is not as revealing as the Barnsdall commission of the process of transition that these years represent. During the decade Aline Barnsdall called upon Wright to design for her 45 buildings, of which 2 were major theaters (one for Chicago, one for Olive Hill); 2 were her own residences (one for Olive Hill, one for Beverly Hills); 16 were stores; 21 were houses; 1 was an apartment building; 1 an entrance pavilion; 1 a motion picture theater; and 1 a playhouse-kindergarten. In addition, he designed a master plan for her property that included the majority of these buildings and anticipated his later theories of planning as developed in Broadacre City. These buildings span the range of Wright's designs from the late Prairie House to the fully worked out textile block system for concrete.

Architecture and Modern Life. Baker Brownell , Frank Lloyd Wright

Ethics ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-115
Author(s):  
Glenn R. Negley
Keyword(s):  
Frank Lloyd Wright ◽  
Modern Life

Disposing of Modernity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca S. Graff
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Mineral Water ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Frank Lloyd Wright ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Urban America ◽  
World's Columbian Exposition ◽  
Columbian Exposition

Through archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Disposing of Modernity explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century. Featuring excavations of trash deposited during the fair, Rebecca Graff’s first-of-its kind study reveals changing consumer patterns, notions of domesticity and progress, and anxieties about the modernization of society. Graff examines artifacts, architecture, and written records from the 1893 fair’s Ohio Building, which was used as a clubhouse for fairgoers in Jackson Park, and the Charnley-Persky House, an aesthetically modern city residence designed by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Many of the items she uncovers were products that first debuted at world’s fairs, and materials such as mineral water bottles, cheese containers, dentures, and dinnerware illustrate how fairs created markets for new goods and influenced consumer practices. Graff discusses how the fair’s ephemeral nature gave it transformative power in Chicago society, and she connects its accompanying “conspicuous disposal” habits to today’s waste disposal regimes. Reflecting on the planning of the Obama Presidential Center at the site of the Chicago World’s Fair, she draws attention to the ways the historical trends documented here continue in the present.

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