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

#4 in the Frank L. Wright Series: the Johnson Wax Headquarters

1. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

2. The Emil Bach House

3. The Imperial Hotel

4. Johnson Wax Headquarters

This picture shows the tower that towers (no pun intended) over the rest of the Headquarters.

This is a picture of the "Great Workroom" (as Wright called it) were all the secretaries worked

This work utilizes streamlined building. Examples of this are shown in the rounded tower edges, and the curves all over the building. The Headquarters has over 2,000 kinds of curved red bricks decorating the outside and inside of the building. The two main colors for the Headquarters are red and cream. The outside of the Headquarters has mostly red on it, but in the parking garage, and the "Great Workroom" and elsewhere in the building the mortar and all the pillars are cream. A lot of the floor is also red.

The pillars shown in the picture above are like most of the other pillars in the building being dendriform (formed like a tree). Pyrex glass tubing is used in the roof and windows. 

The Headquarters layout was built first, and later the tower. Johnson, (the owner of the Headquarters) really liked the Headquarters, so had the tower built, and then had a home built for himself that used the same material as the Headquarters. The tower is no longer used because of fire safety rules.

The building is entered through the parking lot/garage. The parking garage is supported by the same pillars as the "Great Workroom", but is low, so when you walk into the "Great Workroom" that is two stories tall it really seems open and large.

Wright designed the furniture for the building like usual, but Johnson did not like the chairs. They had three legs, so, Wright reasoned, you would have good posture, having to sit with both feet on the chair at all times. Johnson supposedly asked Wright to sit in one, and when he fell down, agreed to design new ones.