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Frank Lloyd Wright designed high-rise
apartments in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1952 -1956
The Price Tower is a nineteen story, 221 foot high tower
in Bartlesville, Oklahoma that was designed by Frank
Lloyd Wright. It is the only realized skyscraper by Wright,
and is one of only two vertically-oriented Wright
structures extant.
Kentuck Nob, a Usonian home, of the
mid 50's
located in the Laurel Highlands of
Western Pennsylvania
His 'Usonian' homes set a new style for suburban design
that was followed by countless developers. Many
features of modern American homes date back to
Wright; open plans, slab-on-grade foundations, and
simplified construction techniques that allowed more
mechanization or at least efficiency in building are
amongst his innovations.
Cedar Rock
The Walter House was one of Wright’s most complete
designs. Nearly everything at Cedar Rock bears the
architect’s imprint. Wright designed the furniture.
selected the carpets. chose the draperies .and even
picked out the accessories. Cedar Rock was begun in
1948 and completed in 1950. Its roof and floors are
concrete; the walls are brick, glass. and walnut. Cedar
Rock is one of ten buildings Wright designed in Iowa.
Wingspread
Wingspread is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd
Wright for Herbert Fisk Johnson, Jr. and built in 1938-
1939 near Racine, Wisconsin. The living room is the
centre of the home, and four wings extend from it to
four "zones": the master bedroom, the children’s rooms,
the kitchen and servants' quarters, and the
guestrooms/garage. .
Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium
Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium (widely known as
Gammage Auditorium and often called the Gammage) is
named for Dr. Grady Gammage, President of Arizona
State University from 1933 to 1959. The auditorium is
located on the main campus of Arizona State University
in Tempe at the crossroads of Mill Avenue and Apache
Boulevard. It is considered to be the last public
commission of architect Frank Lloyd Wright (and reputed
to be based on Wright's drawings for an opera house in
Baghdad, Iraq of which, legend has it, Wright lost the
blueprint in a gambling wager with Gammage ).
Groundbreaking took place and construction on
Gammage began on May 23, 1962. It took 25 months to
complete. The built-on-time, under-budget building
opened in 1964 with the Philadelphia Orchestra
conducted by Eugene Ormandy.