Storer Residence
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 | Storer Residence |
| Designer | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Date | 1923 |
| Building Type | house |
| Climate | desert |
| Context | suburban |
| Architectural Style | Early Modern |
| Street Address | 8161 Hollywood Boulevard Walk Score |
| Notes | S.215. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Storer_Residence.html |
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| National Register of Historic Places | |
| Name | Storer House |
| ID Number | 71000152 |
| NRHP Status | Listed In The National Register |
| Certification Date | 09/28/1971 |
| Level of Significance | Local |
| NRHP Documents | Text (pdf) ; Photos (pdf) |
Commentary
"This is the second of the four Los Angeles area textile-block houses. Its lowest story contains a variety of work spaces, but the second (public entrance) floor features a two-story-high living room, textile block throughout. One side opens from the hillside perch to a full view of Hollywood, Los Angeles, and the San Bernardino Valley. The other looks onto a courtyard, sunk into the rising hillside...."
—William Allin Storrer. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog. project 215.
The Creator's Words
"In my work the idea of plasticity may now be seen as the element of continuity....Classical architecture was all fixation...now...let walls, ceiling, floors become seen as component parts of each other, their surfaces flowing into each other....Here...principle entered into building as the new esthetic continuity...the new reality that is space instead of matter."
—Frank Lloyd Wright. from Vincent Scully, Jr. Frank Lloyd Wright. p18.
Details
Address:8161 Hollywood BoulevardLos Angeles, California 90069
—Thomas A. Heinz. Architectural Monographs No. 18: Frank Lloyd Wright. p141.
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Corner/Young. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1834.008. PCD.2260.1012.1834.015
Edward Ford. The Details of Modern Architecture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. ISBN 0-262-06121-X. LC 89-31772. NA2840.F67 1989. photos, detail drawings, p324-328. drawing of wall section at bedroom detail, p324. Highly recommended for serious observers, and available at Amazon.com
Vincent Scully, Jr. Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: George Braziller, 1960. LC 60-6075. NA737.W7S3. p18.
William Allin Storrer. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: a Complete Catalog. Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1979. ISBN 0-262-19171-7. LC 78-1306. NA737.W7A4 1978. photo of exterior, p215.
William Allin Storrer. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN 0-226-77624-7. LC 93-30127. NA737.W7A4 1993. plan drawing. Available at Amazon.com
Frank Lloyd Wright. Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Los Angeles: The Municipal Art Patrons and Art Commission of Los Angeles, 1953. NA737.W7A4 1953. p35.
- The Textile Block Houses, by Tim Street-Porter, ArchitectureWeek No 420, 2009.0318, pC1.1
[edit] External Links
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(NUMBER+@band(CA0268))
http://www.nr.nps.gov/Red%20Books/71000152.red.pdf
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