Arch Oboler Guest House (Eleanor's Retreat), project, Malibu, California, Plan and elevation
Frank Lloyd Wright
American, 1867–1959
1941
A delicate graphite and colored-pencil tracing on translucent paper in which Frank Lloyd Wright maps a small cliffside retreat for Arch Oboler, using plan and elevation to show how the house is meant to fuse with a rocky outcrop.
What strikes you first is the translucency of the tracing, the pale orange of the rock and the confident cantilevered elevation below a faint plan, all annotated by Wright’s hand and punctuated by a small red seal.
The sheet illustrates Wright’s commitment to organic architecture—integrating building and site through cantilevers and intimate, hand-rendered drawings that helped redefine modern residential design and the role of the architect’s sketch in communicating site-specific ideas.
Medium
Graphite and colored pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions
30 3/4 x 20 1/8" (78.1 x 51.1 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Arthur Drexler Fund
Accession
111.1992
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