The influence of architect John Lautner is strongly suggested in the house Frank Lloyd Wright designed for George Sturges in 1939. Wright had hired Taliesin fellow John Lautner to oversee its construction while Wright was away working on other projects. The single story concrete, steel, brick and redwood house is only 1200 sq. ft., however a panoramic 21' deck adds to a sense of spaciousness. The Usonian design of the Sturgess House is a departure in style from Wright's "textile block" California houses.
The house has been owned for decades by filmmaker James Bridges (Urban Cowboy, The China Syndrome, The Paper Chase) and Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen in the 1950s television series, Adventures of Superman). The house will be put on the auction block on February 21, 2016, with proceeds from the sale benefiting the Bridges/Larson Foundation to be used for charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes. The auction pre-sale estimate is between $2.5 and $3M.
The house was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (No. 577) in 1993. Located at 449 N. Skyewiay Road in the Brentwood Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Originally, Southwest Christian Seminary commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to draw up plans for a new campus in 1949, however the Bible college folded the following year. The plans were revealed to the public in 1950 and included a chapel, administrative buildings, seminar rooms, library, Greek theater, and faculty housing spread over an 80 acre campus. In the early '1970s, Dr. William S. Boice, Founding Pastor of First Christian Church purchased the design for the chapel part of the university. The main design elements include a free-standing, 120-foot bell tower capped with a 22-foot-tall cross, an alloy skeleton supports the tower's 304 tons of concrete, stone, and steel. Located at 6750 North Seventh Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school from 1937 until his death in 1959. It currently serves as the campus of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Wright began his travels to Arizona each winter beginning in 1933, purchasing the Taliesin West land in 1937. Wright thought the location would be the "perfect spot" for his new school and residence in the desert. During his lifetime, Wright continually altered and added to the complex of buildings, all of which were constructed by students. Many of Wright's most famous buildings were designed in the drafting room at Taliesin West, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and Grady Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University in Tempe. The complex was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982.
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Eaglefeather, one of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's unbuilt projects, for Arch Oboler in Malibu, California. Perspective. Pencil and color pencil on tracing paper.
In the 1940s, radio and television personality Arch Oboler and his wife Eleanor set out to create an estate called "Eaglefeather" on the 360-acre lot they owned in the Santa Monica Mountains above Malibu. Their grand plans included a house, a film-processing studio, stables, and paddock, along with other structures. Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned to do the design.
Unfortunately, the Oboler's dream was never realized. World War II created shortages that made construction difficult. According to architect E. Fay Rippon, the Obolers stopped working on the project because their son died on the construction site, but Oboler's waxing and waning fortunes may have also played a part in the project's demise. The gatehouse was built first in 1940. It appears in Oboler's film Five. The next year, a small studio was built for Eleanor on a nearby hilltop. Eventually, the gatehouse was expanded to its current size.
This structure is the only example of Wright's desert rubblestone construction in southern California. Oboler enjoyed collecting rocks as a hobby and gathered many of the stones himself, from as far away as Arizona.
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