![]() Wright had been very interested in the architecture of early Mesoamerica since he was a boy. Due to the moderate climate, Hollyhock is also Wright's first courtyard house that includes a very Californian open floor plan with seamless boundaries between indoor and outdoor zones.įor this ambitious project, Wright chose to base his design primarily off of a pre-Columbian temple form. During this era, he abruptly transitions from his famous Prairie style and instead looks to pre-Spanish and Japanese architecture to find elements that would best serve this new, modern California. ![]() Aline wanted to encourage and explore everything New-theater, dance, film-all the arts.Īt her encouragement, Hollyhock became the first great home of Wright's famous second period. Aline's own home, Hollyhock House, would be at the pinnacle of Olive Hill from which she would oversee her artistic fiefdom. The campus would have a theater, lodgings for artists and actors, a cinema, and even a progressive kindergarten -altogether nineteen buildings to be designed by Wright. ![]() With Olive Hill, Aline urged Wright to expand his horizons through the creation of a new architecture for a new region and age. This getaway would be Aline’s brave new world where she would raise her enlightened daughter. The vacant land had been for sale for some time at $10,000 an acre when Aline offered to pay cash, she was sold the property of thirty-six acres for $300,000.Īline's vision was a multi-disciplinary "art park," where during experimental theater intermissions attendees would stroll the hilltop citadel, hold political discussions during dinners on the roof garden, and dancers would frolic among the olive trees, under the stars and moon, blissfully away from conventional society. Put on your time machine goggles and wipe out the hospitals and strip malls now squatting at the base of this Hollywood hill. The property perched atop a thirty-six acre gentle mound that stretched from Hollywood Blvd to Sunset Blvd and Vermont Ave to Edgemont Ave. In 1919, Aline hired Frank Lloyd Wright, the most controversial and avant-garde architect she knew of to design a cultural acropolis to be named Olive Hill.
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