Frank Lloyd Wright Series

I am now done the Frank Lloyd Wright Series. 

Here are the five buildings I posted on:

1. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

2. The Emil Bach House

3. The Imperial Hotel

4. The Johnson Wax Headquarters

5. Beth Sholom Congregation

I hope it was enjoyable.

To close it out, I will include some facts about Frank Lloyd Wright.

He was married to three different wives at different times during his life.

He first designed in America, than eloped to Europe, then later moved back to America.

He has designed many different kinds of structures totaling 415.

Some of the types are (some are plural, some singular):

1. Houses

2. Apartment buildings

3. Hotels

4. Research Headquarters

5. Synagogues

5. Churches

6. Service stations

7. Cemetery buildings

8. Windmills

9. Pavilions

10. Yacht clubs

11. Fountains

12. Museums

13. Office buildings

14. Banks

15. Factories

16. Libraries

17. Chapels

18. Country Clubs

19. Bookstores

20. Inns

21. Playhouses

22. Gardens

23. Bridges

24. Studios

25. Shops

26. Car dealerships

27.  Golf clubhouses

28. Convention centers

29. Boathouses

30. Spires

#2 in the Frank L. Wright Series:Emil Bach House

This is the second building in the series. I will be posting on a large variety of buildings.

So far I have posted on:

1. The Solomon Guggenheim Museum 

2. The Emil Bach House

        

        

It is characteristic of Wright with the cubes and rectangles intermingled and the flat, overhanging roofs;

This is the style that he helped very much to progress: Prairie Style.

Prairie Style is an organic type of architecture that is supposed to be more natural.

It was built in 1915. It has 2,700 square feet of space.

It is the only Prairie Style house designed by Wright left standing in Chicago.

It was designed for Emil Bach, who was an admirer of Wright. It was just for his family, and has 2 stories and a basement. When it was built, it was considered a country house, and had a view out onto Lake Michigan, but Now it is completely surrounded by other houses and apartment buildings. 

Since 2003, it has been sold several times, each price being over a million dollars. And at the present it is still inhabited by a family.

I included this house in the series because it a great example of his prairie style houses, but not as famous as Falling Water. If I had posted on Falling Water, then some people wouldn't have learned anything.

I really like this house.