Portfolio Updated
Posted on September 24, 2008
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My portfolio has been updated with some of the work I produced during my stay at Arnold Worldwide in Boston. My resume has also been freshened.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hanna House
Posted on September 21, 2008
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Frank Lloyd Wright has always been a big inspiration of mine. In high school I studied architecture pretty extensively and if it wasn’t for the math part, I probably would have headed in that direction. Anyway, I have visited several Wright houses and buildings over the years; Falling Water, the Guggenheim, and the Zimmerman House, to name a few. Now I can add the Hanna house to the list. The house is on a hillside near the Stanford campus in Palo Alto, and is open to the public for tours on a very limited schedule. Our guide did a really great job, and we had about an hour total in the house and on the grounds.
If you aren’t familiar with Wright’s work, it’s worth investigating, regardless of what field of art or design you are involved with. Wright’s work was so far ahead of it’s time, and at the same time, timeless. The Hanna house (and others) look as though they could have been designed and built today, and featured in Dwell magazine as contemporary architecture. Historical photos of these houses with old Studebakers parked in the carports throws one off a bit; the Hanna house was designed and built in 1936. As with all of Wrights designs, the house was so well thought out, right down to every detail; even the direction that visible screw-heads are pointed in! Which happens to be horizontal, matching the sightlines of the house. The Hanna house is a concept house based on a hexagon, and proportions that come from that. The floorplan renderings alone are a work of art.
Perhaps I’ll add more information to this post later; I could go on and on about details of the house and of Wright. But maybe a look at the photos of the Hanna house and some cursory research can explain much more.
Update, Sep. 28:
Charles sent over a couple historical photos of the Hanna house; the landscape was a lot more open then, and it shows the somewhat out of place looking period cars in the carport.
