Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect used in program Modernism (aesthetics based on pure form, mass production for alienation, working towards collapse of society). His uncle was Jenkin Lloyd Jones whose son worked for Cosmopolitan and Collier's. Like Le Corbusier and Buckminster Fuller he was raised according the pedagogic principles of Friedrich Fröbel (study of crystals). |
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He was educated at University of Wisconsin-Madison and trained at Adler & Sullivan of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler (Chicago School, jewish elite family Adler).
In 1923 he designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo Japan, the Millard House (used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Westworld) in Pasadena (hq of OTO) and the Ennis House, based on Mayan temples.
The Ennis House was used in House on Haunted Hill of William Castle with Vincent Price, The Day of the Locust with Karen Black, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, The Rocketeer (Howard Hughes), David Lynch's Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive (exterior of Club Silencio), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Thirteenth Floor, 30 Seconds to Mars (Jared Leto) video Artifact.
In 1927 he married Olgivanna Lazovic, trained in sacred dance rituals by George Gurdjieff, who also trained PD Ouspensky and jewish Kabbalist Thomas de Hartmann. She was a friend of modernist Katherine Mansfield and the daughter of Joseph Stalin. They founded the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
In 1935 he designed the Fallingwater house (water falls produce negative ions) for Edgar Jones Kaufman.
He designed the fraternity house of Cornell's Alpha Delta Phi (Metropolitan Museum of Art founder George Fisk Comfort, WR Grace, David Solomon of Goldman Sachs, Walter Teagle of Standard Oil, John D Rockefeller Jr, David Packard of HP, Fredric March, Ben Stein, John Perry Barlow of Grateful Dead, Henry Luce, Elijah Kellogg).
In 1959 the Soloimon R Guggenheim Museum (sacred geometry of the spiral) in NY was finished.
Like Le Corbusier, his houses were declared UNESCO World Heritage sites.
His son Lloyd Wright designed the Hollywood Bowl, the Institute of Mentalphysics of Edwin Dingle in Mojave desert, the John Sowden House and Swedenborg Memorial Chapel and worked for Paramount Pictures.
The Sowden House in Los Feliz LA was also based on Mayan architecture and from 1945 to 1950 inhabited by George Hodel (Caltech like Parsons) who played a role in the Black Dahlia ritual in 1947. It was used as the house of Ava Gardner (played by Kate Beckingsale) in The Aviator (poster like Strange Angel about Parsons) with Leonardo di Caprio as Howard Hughes (Horus archetype) and I Am the Night (Nuit) with Chris Pine.
born 6/8/11867.
died 4/9/1959.
Lloyd Wright in pop culture
1998 Frank Lloyd Wright PBS