Modernism has stayed around for a while because it is well, modern. There were many big players in America spreading and keeping modernism alive as well as so many important houses built by these game players.
One of the most important was someone who is not new to us, Frank Lloyd Wright. Looks like he needed to spread his modernism everywhere, even coming back home to America. He introduced the Hollyhock house in Los Angeles California. This house was built in 1921 for Aline Barnsdall. The house included elaborate terraces and garden along with structure poured from concrete and cast with geometric ornamentation. Having been done during something know as Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Japanese years” which had heavy influence on this house in particular. It was a house unlike most of his others.
(Hollyhock House pictured above)
Another house we worked on was The Millard House in Pasadena California. This was one of his most successful houses during the period. it included features such as concrete block that were cast with patterns, similar to the Hollyhock house. This was called a textile block which gives the wall surfaces repeated pattern that resemble fabrics.
(Millard House pictured above)
The most important house that Frank Lloyd Wright created was Falling Water. This home was built for Edgar Kauffman in Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh. One of the most interesting features of this home is that it was built on a waterfall and the different method that were used to make that be possible. Wright loved to use his natural resources and this building gave him exactly that.
(Falling Water pictured above)
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