Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2032039 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .69" h x 9.74" w x 9.86" l, 2.32 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From Library Journal
The maturation of any artist should be well documented, and when that artist is Frank Lloyd Wright, only a well-researched and visually impressive presentation will suffice--something Smith has succeeded in creating here. This is the story of the conception, design, construction, and eventual failure of Olive Hill, a planned theatrical community on 36 acres in Hollywood. Smith describes the battle of the powerful rich with the artistic poor and the unfulfilled dreams and loss that resulted. By itself, this is a tale worth telling, but Smith uses this Hollywood landscape as a backdrop for discussing a period of intense experimentation and struggle that forced Wright to develop a more modern view of architecture. This book is rich in line drawings, architectural photographs, and documents of the original projects of Olive Hill, of which only two were built, one the famous Hollyhock House. Very little has been written about Olive Hill, and this book is a treasure of information. Recommended for public and academic libraries. For more on Wright, see the review of his Collected Writings, Vol. 2 , p. 165.--Ed.
- Glenn Masuchika, Cha minade Univ. Lib., Honolulu
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Ingram
Extensively documents Wright's design, commissioned by art patron Aline Barnsdall, for a theater community on Hollywood's Olive Hill between 1914 and 1924, which marked an important transition between his early Prairie Houses and his more "modern" work after 1936.