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Frank Lloyd Wright's "lost decade",
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This review is from: Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture (Hardcover)
"Wright in Hollywood" by Robert Sweeney is a thoroughly-researched and richly illustrated account of the 1920's work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Most accounts of Wright's career emphasize his earlier Prairie houses and/or his later period that began with the house on a waterfall, Fallingwater. However, between these two portions of Wright's life, during the period of construction of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, he made Los Angeles his base of operations for a few years. Beginning with the Barnsdall "Hollyhock" House, he designed several homes in Los Angeles, most of them in Hollywood. Except for Hollyhock House itself, these houses were built of his "textile [concrete] block" system which he progressively refined from house to house. As I grew up in Los Angeles and have visited and photographed all of these buildings, I had a special interest and I was not disappointed. Sweeney accounts for nearly thirty projects either built or planned but not built that utilized the textile block system, and he does it with a very readable style. I greatly enjoyed his book and it will form a permanent part of my Wright library.
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Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture by Robert L. Sweeney (Hardcover - July 18, 1994)
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