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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Los Angeles, California, United Statesen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1919-1921 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorWright, Frank Lloyden_US
dc.date1919-1921en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-20T17:55:12Z
dc.date.available2013-02-20T17:55:12Z
dc.date.issued1919-1921en_US
dc.identifier192547en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1364en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/99832
dc.descriptionTerrace planter at southwest corner, frontal view from west, depicting detail of decorative concrete work; "Built between 1919 and 1921 for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, Hollyhock House is Frank Lloyd Wright's first project in Los Angeles. Its namesake is abstracted and geometricized in much of the house's design, including exterior walls and interior furniture. Hollyhock House was the centerpiece of a mostly unrealized Wright master plan for a theater community set on a thirty-six acre site, "Olive Hill." Wright left much of the supervision of construction of Hollyhock House to his son, landscape architect Lloyd Wright, and to architect Rudolf Schindler, as Wright himself was working on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (since destroyed). In 1927, Aline Barnsdall donated the Hollyhock House and eleven surrounding acres to the City of Los Angeles for use as a public art park. It has been leased over the years to various arts organizations, necessitating a cycle of alteration and rehabilitation that is culminating in the large-scale rehabilitation which started in the fall of 1998. Today Hollyhock House is a part of Barnsdall Art Park, with a local art gallery, theater, and children's activities." Source: Galinsky [website]; http://www.galinsky.com/ (accessed 7/14/2008)en_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectabstraction or non-objectiveen_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectplantsen_US
dc.subjectdwellingen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.titleHollyhock Houseen_US
dc.title.alternativeAline Barnsdall Hollyhock Houseen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-WFL-HH-D2en_US
vra.culturalContextAmericanen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypehouseen_US
dc.contributor.displayFrank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959)en_US


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