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Lloyd Wright
Landscape Architect + Architect
Male
Born
Mar 30, 1890
Died
May 31, 1978
Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr., commonly known as Lloyd Wright, was an American landscape architect and architect, most active in Los Angeles and Southern California. His name is frequently confused with that of his more famous father, Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Touring Wright's Vision For The Masses San Diego MetropolitanGoogle News - Sep 14, 2011
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CHILDHOOD
1890
Birth
Born in 1890.
TWENTIES
1911
21 Years Old
He settled in Southern California around 1911, followed by his younger brother John Lloyd Wright.
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1919
29 Years Old
Beginning in 1919, his father, working in Japan on the Imperial Hotel, delegated some of the responsibilities to him and architect Rudolf Schindler for designing and supervising construction of the Hollyhock House, in Hollywood, California.
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THIRTIES
1920
30 Years Old
Wright began his independent career in 1920.
1922
32 Years Old
In 1922 he was a production designer at Paramount Studios, responsible for the extensive castle and 12th-century village sets for the Douglas Fairbanks version of Robin Hood.
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1923
33 Years Old
The first was the 1923 Millard House in Pasadena, where Lloyd designed the grounds, and contributed an adjacent studio building in 1926.
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1928
38 Years Old
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His 1928 wooden shell had the now-familiar concentric ring motif, covered a 120-degree arc, and was designed to be easily dismantled.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1951
61 Years Old
His best-known project is the Wayfarers Chapel, also known as "The Glass Church", an indoor/outdoor structure made almost entirely of glass and built in 1951 for the Swedenborgian church, overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
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1963
73 Years Old
Among his last projects was the 1963 John P. Bowler house, known as the "Bird of Paradise" House, in Rancho Palos Verdes using blue fiberglass for projecting roof fins, and the master plan and building designs for a 1970 shopping center in Huntington Beach, at Warner and Springdale streets south of Long Beach.
1978
88 Years Old
Died in 1978.
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