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Wright's drawings called for the four buildings to be arranged in a pinwheel layout around the main house. [46] The main house's massing was to resemble a mesa. [47] [48] There would have been an artificial stream flowing between and through the buildings, [49] similarly to Wright's later design for Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. [50] [51]
Wright used sledgehammers and aluminum molds to imprint elaborate Maya-inspired patterns into the blocks. [9] The four Southern California textile-block houses represented Wright's earliest uses of the exotic, monumental Maya forms. [4] Storer House is the only one of Wright's textile-block houses to use multiple block patterns—four in all.
The Maynard Buehler House in Orinda, California is a 4,000 square feet (370 square meters) Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948 for Katherine Z. "Katie" and Maynard P. Buehler. [2] Since 2016 the house has been used as a venue for weddings, after being featured in Vogue magazine.
Buyers had to submit a topographic map and photos of the lot to Wright before purchasing the property. Wright would determine where the home should sit on the lot. [4] Wright also intended to inspect each home after completion, and to apply his famous glazed red signature brick to the home if it had been completed as planned. [1] [2] [3]
The American System-Built Homes were modest houses in a series designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. They were developed between 1911 and 1917 to fulfill his interest in affordable housing but were sold commercially for just 14 months.
John Sowden House, also known as the "Jaws House" or the "Franklin House", is a residence built in 1926 in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California by Lloyd Wright. The house is noted for its use of ornamented textile blocks and for its striking facade, resembling (depending on the viewer's points of cultural reference) either a Mayan ...
An abandoned Hollywood mansion is shown in this view from a drone after it was tagged with graffiti in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, U.S. September 24, 2024.
The house consists of two buildings, the main house and a smaller chauffeur's apartment/garage, separated by a paved courtyard. Unlike the vertical orientation of the other three block houses, the Ennis House has a long horizontal loggia spine on the northern side, connecting public and private rooms to the south, and is very large at 6,200 sq ft (580 m 2). [9]