Wright House Presentations

Assignment: Houses of Frank Lloyd Wright

The conceptual development of Frank Lloyd Wright’s long career can be traced
through his suburban houses. Stretching over 60 years, Mr. Wright created the bar
for what suburban architecture could be in a virgin land. The variations explored
combine the self-defining modern issues of a young nation: mechanization,
standardization, the car, the nuclear family and unique identity.

Styles titled by Mr. Wright and then promoted to the public through his prolific
writings include the Prairie Style, textile block and Usonian; to name a few. These
spatial iterations were celebrated and supported by like-minded publishers and
architects, nationally and abroad. Your assignment is to present one of the
residential works listed below in a visual format.

The five-minute presentation should include, images of the work, plans, sections,
elevations, details, renderings, etc. Most importantly, the presentation should
define the style of the work per Mr. Wright’s oeuvre. Demonstrate the principles at
work visually. You are the educator here.
Use both images and text. The name, location and date of each work should be at
the top of each visual page.

Save your file in the following PDF format:
Wright-title of work-your last name.pdf
At the start of class we will load up all of the files and then you will present.

The Greenfield library has many excellent books on Mr. Wright. Find your
subject, scan what is necessary and return the book so others may do the same.
Show etiquette. Maybe, work together. Due next class.

Also, you may use Flickr, Youtube, esto, artstor to find high-resolution images. Do
not trust imagery below 800X600. Show your text sources at the end in MLA format.
Sign off with your last name.

Wright’s home and studio, Oak Park
Willets hosue Highland Park, IL
Heurtley House, Chicago, IL
Martin House, Buffalo
Robie house, Chicago, IL
Taliesin East, Spring Green, WI
Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA
Ennis house, Los Angeles, CA
Taliesin West, Scottsdale, AZ
Broadacre City
Fallingwater, Bear Run, PA
Hanna House, Palo Alto, CA
Pope Leighy house, Falls Church, WI
Sturges house, Los Angeles, CA
Suntop Homes, Ardmore, PA
Jacobs House Middleton, WI
Adelman House, Scottsdale, AZ

THE WILLIT HOUSE
frank loyd wright

“THE DWELLING BECAME MORE FIT FOR HUMAN HABITATION...
AND MORE NATURAL TO ITS SITE.
AN ENTIRELY NEW SENSE OF SPACE VALUES IN ARCHITECTURE
BEGAN TO COME HOME.”

FRANK LOYD WRIGHT

WARD WILLITS HOUSE | FRANK LOYD WRIGHT | HIGHLAND PARK, IL | 1905

WARD WILLITS HOUSE | FRANK LOYD WRIGHT | HIGHLAND PARK, IL | 1905 | NORTH SIDE

WARD WILLITS HOUSE | FRANK LOYD WRIGHT | HIGHLAND PARK, IL | 1905 | EAST SIDE

WARD WILLITS HOUSE | FRANK LOYD WRIGHT | HIGHLAND PARK, IL | 1905 | WEST SIDE

WARD WILLITS HOUSE | FRANK LOYD WRIGHT | HIGHLAND PARK, IL | 1905 | AERIAL VIEW

WARD WILLITS HOUSE | FRANK LOYD WRIGHT | HIGHLAND PARK, IL | 1905 | INTERIOR

Frank Lloyd Wright Home &
Studio
951 Chicago Avenue

Sean Talamini

Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio
951 Chicago Avenue
•  Wright’s home is located
in Oak Park, Illinois
•  Wright began
construction on the house
in 1889
•  Wright lived here with
wife and six children from
1889 to 1901
•  He developed his
architectural practices
and created what became
the "Prairie Style" of
architecture today.

951 Chicago Avenue
•  The “Prairie Style”
–  “H. Allen Brooks, writing in Frank Lloyd Wright and
the Prairie School (NY: Braziller, 1984), emphasizes
the American-ness of the Prairie Style, given its
"theoretical connection with nature, the design
process being derived from natural laws rather than
philosophical idealism or classical rules" . Wright and
other members of the Prairie School believed that the
design should adapt perfectly to function. "The
creative process was 'organic,' unfolding or growing
from the inside out, establishing integral relationships
between plan and elevation, interior space and
external expression, architecture and decoration"

951 Chicago Avenue
•  Llyod originally used the •  Also in 1895, Wright
front room of his house
on the second floor as his added a two story
studio extension to east side
•  In 1895 the two story known as the
polygonal Bay on the Children’s playroom.
south side was added
–  The first floor was built as
his dinning room
–  The same year, Wright also
added a two story
extension to the east side
of the house

951 Chicago Avenue
The Children’s Playroom The Dinning Room

951 Chicago Avenue
Studio Annex

•  The Studio Annex was completed in 1898
•  The annex includes a reception area,
drafting room and presentation library
–  He spent much of his time working here

951 Chicago Avenue

•  Home was deteriorating until 1974
–  Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
Foundation was established
–  Full restoration of home was completed in
1987 (cost approximately $3million.)
•  In 1909 Wright moved out of the house
–  Home was remodeled and divided the house
into six rental units

Works Cited
•  "Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio, Oak Park, Illinois." Oak Park Tourist -
Touring, Living and Working in Oak Park, Illinois. Web. 21 Oct. 2009.
<http://www.oprf.com/flw/H&S.html>.
•  "Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio: A modern architecture mecca -
Chicago, Illinois." Chicago Illinois. Chicago City Guide and Yellow Pages.
Zip Codes 60607. Web. 21 Oct. 2009. <http://www.hellochicago.com/
Articles/Attraction/1472/Frank_Lloyd_Wright_Home_and_Studio_A
•  "Frank Lloyd Wright - The Prairie Style: From Theory to Practice." Frank
Lloyd Wright's Westcott House. Web. 21 Oct. 2009. <http://
www.westcotthouse.org/prairie_style.html>.

Arthur Heurtley House Chicago, IL 1902

Arthur Heurtley House - street view

Spindle chair - originally designed for Heurtley House

Richard W. Heurtley and Arthur Heurtley.

looking out from porch - from front door

Dining Room - upper ﬂoor looking towards Library

Dining room looking north into breakfast bay

Music room - ﬁrst ﬂoor - South windows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS4AVBV5EQQ

• Citywide Services. Professional Service in Chicago & Suburbs. “Arthur Heurtley
House.” 2009. <http://www.appraisercitywide.com/content.aspx?
filename=CustomPage20.x>

• Flicker. “Arthur Heurtley House.” 2009. <http://www.flickr.com/search/?
mt=all&adv=1&w=all&q=Arthur+Heurtley+House&m=text>

• Heinz, Thomas A. Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses. New York: Regency House
Limited, 2002.

• Hurder, Steve. Oak Park Tourist. “Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, 1889-1909.”
1995-2003. <http://www.oprf.com/flw/index.html>

• Sullivan, Mary Ann. “The Arthur Heurtley House.” 1998-1999. <http://
www.heurtley.com/house/>

F R A N K
L L O Y D
WRIGHT
Martin House
B u f f a l o , N Y
( 1 9 0 2 - 1 9 0 4 )

MAR TIN HOUSE Buffalo, NY 1904

B A R TON HOUSE Buffalo, NY 1904

BIBLIOGR APHY

Curtis, William J.R. Modern Architecture Since 1900. Phaidon Press.
New York. 2009.

McCarter, Robert. Frank Lloyd Wright : A Primer on Architectural
Principles. Princeton Architectural Press, New York. 1991.

Riley, Terence. Frank Lloyd Wright : Architect. The Museum of Modern
Art, New York. 1994.

Storrer, William Allin. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. The
University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 2002.

Studies And Executed Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright. Rizzoli, New
York. 1986.

frank lloyd wright’s ennis house

ennis house.frank lloyd wright.1923.for Charles and mabel ennis

"What about the concrete block? It was the cheapest thing in the
building world. It lived mostly in the architectural gutter as an
imitation of rock-faced stone. Why not see what could be done
with that gutter rat? Steel rods cast inside the joints of the
blocks themselves and the whole brought into some broad,
practical scheme of general treatment, why would it not be fit
for a new phase of our modern architecture? It might be
permanent, noble beautiful.”

-Frank Lloyd Wright

blade runner

snide and
predjudice

rush hour

house on
haunted hill

idaloca
ivin la’ v
l

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaQYyFztjaM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLJcUrGkEww

sources
ennishouse.org
thomas heinz architectural digest october 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaQYyFztjaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLJcUrGkEww

images
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benmiller23/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bargainbetty/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodhistory/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/plug1/

Frank Lloyd Wright-Fallingwater-Bear Run, PA-1934

Monday, October 26, 2009

Frank Lloyd Wright-Fallingwater-Bear Run, PA-1934-Plans


Frank Lloyd Wright-Fallingwater-Bear Run, PA-1934-Elevation


Frank Lloyd Wright-Fallingwater-Bear Run, PA-1934-Interior


Frank Lloyd Wright-Fallingwater-Bear Run, PA-1934-Interior view out


Bibliography

-http://falcon.el-tejon.k12.ca.us/academy/live/Tech%20page/Falling_Water_01%20(Arcitecture%202).jpg
-http://www.flickr.com/photos/42423836@N08/3904928603/
-http://www.flickr.com/photos/leighdameron/3404385182/
-http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarakass/294128666/
-http://www.flickr.com/photos/bettytsang/3865356285/
-http://www.flickr.com/photos/burnlab/291562784/
http://slowmuse.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/fallingwater.jpg
-http://www.wpconline.org/fallingwater/drawings/MainFloor.jpg
-Modern Architecture Since 1900 ,(Third Edition) William J. Curtis, Phaidon Press Inc. 1996


Jacobs House, Frank Lloyd Wright,
Madison Wisconsin 1936-37

Form Follows Function

“we can never make the living room big enough,
the ﬁreplace important enough, or the sense of
relationship between exterior, interior and
environment close enough or get enough of these
good things I’ve just mentioned. A Usonian house
is always hungry for the ground, lives by it,
becoming and integral feature of it”.

Frank Lloyd Wright. “Frank Lloyd wright”, The Architectural Forum,
January, 1948,Vol 88 Number 1. P71

Jacobs II house, Middletown Wisconsin, 1944

Suntop homes
Ardmore, Pa

Frank Lloyd Wright


Suntop Homes Ardmore, Pa Frank Lloyd Wright 1939


Suntop Homes site and ﬂoor plans Frank Lloyd Wright Ardmore, Pa 1939


Suntop Homes ﬂoor plan Frank Lloyd Wright Ardmore, Pa 1939


Suntop Homes Frank Lloyd Wright Ardmore, Pa 1939


Suntop Homes interior of living room / view of the garden Frank Lloyd Wright Ardmore, Pa 1939


residence Frank Lloyd Wright Millstone Borough, Somerset County, New jersey 1939


Suntop Homes Dining area Frank Lloyd Wright Ardmore, Pa 1939


Suntop Homes kitchen Frank Lloyd Wright Ardmore, Pa 1939


residence Falling water Frank Lloyd Wright Pa 1934


Suntop Homes Lounge Frank Lloyd Wright Ardmore, Pa 1939


Suntop Homes bathroom / bedroom Frank Lloyd Wright Ardmore, Pa 1939


Taliesin West Frank Lloyd Wright Scottsdale, Arizona 1937


http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/photodb/web/html2/271-1.html
http://www.mediaarchitecture.at/architekturtheorie/broadacre_city/2009_ardmore_cloverleaf_en.shtml
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Suntop_Homes.html

Frederick C. Robie House, 1906 Chicago, Illinois Frank Lloyd Wright

Frederick C. Robie House, 1906 Chicago, Illinois Frank Lloyd Wright

‐Frank Lloyd Wright The Masterworks Bruce Brooks Pfeiﬀer, David Larkin
Copyright 1993 Rizzoli InternaMonal PublicaMons, Inc., NY, NY

‐hPp://www.piP.edu

Erik Weedeman

Frank
Lloyd
Wright’s

Hanna House
Stanford California
1936

Citation

Hanna, Jean and Hanna, Paul. Frank Lloyd
Wright’s Hanna House. Southern Illinois University
Press, 1981

•  American architect, interior designer, writer and
educator
•  He designed and completed more than 500 works,
including homes, oﬃces, churches, schools, sky
scrapers, hotels, and museums
•  He also designed interior elements such as furniture
and stained glass.
•  He promoted “Organic Architecture” and created the
concept of the “Usonian House”

•  What is “Organic Architecture” ?

•  An architecture idea which promotes harmony
between man‐made structure and the nature
around, through design approach so well
integrated that the buildings and surroundings
become part of a uniﬁed & interrelated
composiIon

•  What is an “Usonian House”?

•  They were typically small, single‐story homes without a
garage or much storage, found on odd and cheap lots
•  L‐shaped to ﬁt around a garden terrace
•  Environmentally conscious through the use of naBve materials
•  Flat roofs and large canBlevered overhangs for solar heaBng
and natural cooling
•  Natural lighBng through the use of clerestory windows
•  Radiant‐ﬂoor heaBng
•  Usually has a carport

•  “George Sturges House”. 23 Oct 2009. hOp://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sturges_House.
•  Boyle, Tim. “Sturges House”. 2000. ASU School of
Architecture. 23 Oct 2009. hOp://Bmboyle.com/
architecture/sturges/sturges.html.
•  “Usonia”. 23 Oct 2009. hOp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonian.
•  hOp://www.ﬂickr.com/search/?w=all&q=sturges
+house&m=text#page=0.

Nick Salvatore

Adelman House
 Architect : Frank Lloyd Wright
 Date of Construction : 1948
 Location : Fox Point, Milwaukee County

Adelman House, Fox Point Wisconsin 1946 - 1948 Close up view of entry of home

Adelman House, Fox Point Wisconsin 1946 – 1948 interior skylights

Adelman House, Fox Point Wisconsin 1946 – 1948 exterior view

Adelman House, Fox Point Wisconsin 1946 – 1948 Design board

Adelman House, Fox Point Wisconsin 1946 – 1948 junc<on of garage and house wings

Adelman House, Fox Point Wisconsin 1946 - 1948 interior living space

Adelman House, Fox Point Wisconsin 1946 – 1948 interior dining space

Adelman House, Fox Point Wisconsin 1946 – 1948 interior living space

Adelman House, Fox Point Wisconsin 1946 – 1948 view of rear

Adelman House, Fox Point Wisconsin 1946 – 1948 view of rear and side of home.

Adelman House, Fox Point Wisconsin 1946 – 1948 view of rear of home and pa<o

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