Frank Lloyd Wright Hollyhock House and Olive Hill: Buildings And Projects for Aline Barnsdall (California Architecture and Architects)
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., HonoluluCopyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.