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Textures, colors, shapes, nature, architecture.

[thisiscitylab]

The apartment of Rick Deckard in Blade Runner. The titular House on Haunted Hill, where Vincent Price’s character invites guests to survive a night of frights and win a fortune. The penthouse setting of Twin Peaks’s faux soap opera “Invitation to Love.” The Great Pyramid of Meereen, prominently featured on Season 6 of Game of Thrones.

These TV and film settings span decades and genres, from science fiction to horror to fantasy. But they have one crucial connection: They all either filmed in, or were directly inspired by, one private residence in Los Angeles—the Ennis House, built in 1924 by Frank Lloyd Wright. Stone-colored and covered with intricately patterned tiles, it looms imperiously from atop the Los Feliz hills—and, as the Historic American Buildings Survey described it in 1969, “appears from the distance as a tremendously large monument rather than a two-bedroom dwelling.”

The Second Life of Frank Lloyd Wright's Monster House

[Photos: J. Paul Getty Trust]

[moma]

Frank Lloyd Wright | HOW TO SEE Midway Gardens with Spyros Papapetros

Explore Frank Lloyd Wright's lost Midway Gardens and learn how the architect controlled the design process, from the plans for the building's facade and courtyard, all the way down to furniture, rugs, and cutlery. Guest curator Spyros Papapetros explains why "organic ornamentation"—objects that bring the whole building together—were so important to Wright, and often accounted for over half the budget of his building projects.

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Wright Around Trees: passageway between his 1889 Home and 1898 Studio built around two trunks of a willow tree, 1908 Isabel Roberts House with a tree growing through it (now just a stump) and 1936 Fallingwater beam curving around a tree.

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The 1889 Auditorium Theatre Building, Chicago, IL. Designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, Frank Lloyd Wright as their young draftsman. After it was completed, Adler & Sullivan had their offices in the tower, including an office for Wright. Wright’s work on his “bootleg” houses led to his split with Sullivan in 1993.

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Wright Around Oak Park Christmas, Part 1.

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2017 Wright Year, Part 2 - Harrison Young House, Unity Temple, Driving Tour of Chicago North Shore Suburban Wright Houses, MOMA Unpacking the Archives.

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1895 Nathan Moore House as rebuilt after 1923 fire, Oak Park, IL.