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Frank Lloyd Wright had 685 known clients.  A given client may have commissioned one or several projects from the architect. This search approach sorts Wright projects alphabetically by the last name of the client, and provides links to project information and all related project drawings detailed in the database. Wright also produced a great deal of work for his own purposes, essentially as his own client. References to the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois, Taliesin estate at Spring Green, Wisconsin, and Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, as well as other more temporary residences and studios (e.g., Chicago, New York, Italy, Tokyo, Japan) will be found indexed under his own name.

Project Information

Barnsdall, Aline

Director''s House at Olive Hill for Aline Barnsdall (later Residence A), project [Los Angeles, California] (1919)

Note: The following information concerning this project represents original research and analysis by John Geiger, and is based in his long and detailed study of the Frank Lloyd Wright literature as well as personal contacts with members of the Taliesin Fellowship and architectural historians. In addition, he added his own categories of building type and compositional form, as well as other points of consideration that he deemed important to understanding of the design. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided. Sometimes there is an indication of attribution for which there is no matching footnote recorded. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Studio/Residential.

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 9.

Drawing Number and Description

2004.??1     Elevation
2004.??2     Perpsective
2004.??3     Elevation from the east
2004.??4     Elevation from the south
2004.??5     Elevation form the norht
2004.??6     Floor plans of first and second floors
2004.??7     Floor plans, basement and second floor and roof
2004.??8     Cross sections
2004.??9     Elevations, 4

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: (a) According to Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer in Taschen 17/42, p. 58 this design was designed for a different site near the theater and a watercourse. It was later moved to a site near the entrance to Olive hill and became Residence A. Geiger 06/04/10.

Note: The information shown above is collected from a series of data table columns intended originally to record not only comments or notes, but also to cite sources of attribution for dates assigned to the various stages of drawing preparation in the design process. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution shown here should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided.

This commission is referenced and/or illustrated in the following publications:

Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-3-8365-0926-8].
Smith, Kathryn. Frank Lloyd Wright: Hollyhock House and Olive Hill Buildings and Projects for Aline Barnsdal. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1540-4].