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When movie producer and architecture-buff Joel Silver was restoring the Storer House in Hollywood, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's residential masterpieces, work nearly stopped while contractors, architectural preservationists and even Wright's grandson, Eric Wright, searched for the exact formula to duplicate the structure's concrete blocks. It wasn't until a little of the soil from the backyard was mixed with cement that the blocks were exactly as Wright had made them-his concept of "organic architecture" at work.