The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright - ACE129.4

The Cheney house (1903), Oak Park. Photo of Mamah Borthwick Cheney. Photo of Wright. Narrator gives outline of German period and time in Tuscany, and Wright’s moving away from Oak Park with Mrs Cheney. Taliesin, in Spring Green, where Mamah Cheney and her two children were killed by a former servant, who also set fire to the house. Wright rebuilt it. Interior, exterior, including gardens. Photos of statuary and buildings in the Midway Gardens (1914), Wright’s last Chicago building.
Film and architectural drawing of the German Warehouse (1915) at Richland Center.
Architectural drawing nd photographs of the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, commissioned in 1913, constructed on concrete piles laid in mud as an anti-earthquake measure. A hollyhock, and a concrete abstract version, from Hollyhock House, completed 1921 in Los Angeles, for Aline Barnsdall, "the socialite socialist". Exterior, interior showing skylight over fireplace, (contemporary photo shows skylight open), the "moat" around the fireplace, landscape gardens, decorative details. View across Hollywood Valley from Hollyhock House towards the Ennis House (1923), a "textile block" construction. Exterior, interior, design details. Wright VO on the relationship between music and architecture via mathematics. La Miniatura, completed 1923 in Pasadena, for Alice Millard, considered by Wright to be his first "Usonian" (United States-ian) home. Exterior, interior, design features.