Arch Oboler Guest House (Eleanor's Retreat), project, Malibu, California, Perspective
Frank Lloyd Wright
American, 1867–1959
1941
A delicate perspective drawing in colored pencil, graphite, and color ink proposing a cantilevered guest house clinging to a Malibu bluff, where Wright seeks to fuse a modern, geometric dwelling with its rocky site.
The first impression is the vast, worn expanse of tracing paper punctured by a small, sharply rendered red-toned house thrust over a cliff, its horizontal lines, tiny green sprigs of vegetation, and faint washes suggesting sea and sky and making the building feel both precarious and integrated with the landscape.
This intimate sketch exemplifies Wright’s late exploration of organic architecture and dramatic cantilevers, showing how his drawings advanced modern residential design by treating the architect’s sketch as a generative, site-responsive idea.
Medium
Colored pencil, graphite, and color ink on tracing paper
Dimensions
16 15/16 x 19 1/4" (43.1 x 48.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Arthur Drexler Fund
Accession
113.1992
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