[House ("La Miniatura") for Mrs. George Madison Millard, 645 Prospect Crescent, Pasadena, California. [graphic].
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959, architect.
still image
Architectural drawings 1920-1930. gmgpc
[1923]
eng
Caption label from exhibit "Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape": The textile-block system that Wright developed during the 1920s underlies his designs for Doheny and related projects of the period, including four houses in the Los Angeles area: Millard (called La Miniatura, 1923), Storer (1923), Freeman (1924), and Ennis (1924). All four houses were built, illustrating in fragmentary form the ideal suburban image of the Doheny Ranch development. Similar to the individual units in that project, each house was related to a roadway; when space allowed, these roadways were made an active part of the design. Each structure also embanked or retained the slope of its site through extended walls and terraces, so that an intermediate, clearly bounded area of cultivated garden was created. This garden area, in turn, linked each building to the surrounding, seemingly unchanged terrain.
Title block (erased): Residence for Mrs. George Madison Millard, Pasadena, Cal.
Title devised by Library staff.
Forms part of: Visual materials from Donald D. Walker collection.
Exhibited: "Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., November 1996-February 1997.
Exhibited: LA@LC, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, 2003.
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