Hollyhock House (Frank Lloyd Wright), Los Angeles, November, 1999.
Cleaning out the hard drive, came across some scans of a roll or two I shot at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House in Los Angeles, back in 1999. Naoko and I were ostensibly visiting my brother, but for the most part it was an architectural tour of various famed L.A. homes and buildings. In addtion to Hollyhock, we also saw Wright’s Ennis-Brown, Storer, and Freeman homes (of these, only the Ennis-Brown is open to the public). We also visited other famous architectural landmarks like Schindler’s Studio-Residence, the Bradbury Building, as well as seeing from afar some of the Case Study Houses like the Eames House. Thinking back on it, quite a strange trip, lots of driving in and out of the various Los Angeles hills, book and map in hand. Naoko must’ve thought I was pretty messed up (and of course, she’d be right!).
Anyway, ironically enough, much of the Hollyhock’s construction was left to Wright’s son and Schindler to manage, as the elder Wright was occupied with the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
Click on the above photo for a small gallery. Be forewarned, the photos are fairly pedestrian.
pedestrian? pish-aw! i love photos of great architecture, especially wright buildings. a nice collection.
I love these pictures. I don’t find them pedestrian at all. The lines and shapes are amazing. This may be the mathematician in me talking, but this is a great look at geometry. The shadows in the two pictures play very well, too. I would love a poster of a couple of these for when I have my classroom.