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All is Wright these days in Barnsdall Art Park in East Hollywood.
On display at the park's Municipal Art Gallery through March 13 are two major exhibits of some of the more inventive projects master architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed in Los Angeles and in Wisconsin. Gallery hours are 12:30 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday.
Though the two exhibits are engaging, recommended and well organized, they are limited. To examine architecture through photographs, plans, drawings, models, films and words just will not do, particularly not for Wright's idiosyncratic designs.
To really appreciate Wright's designs you have to experience them, feel-in the massing-the power of the structure and materials, be lured closer by the detailing, be embraced by the entries and be dazzled by the interiors.
Just a few steps from the gallery, on the crest of the hill on which the art park sits above the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, is the brooding Barnsdall House, the first of a series of commissions Wright executed in Los Angeles.
Designed for Aline Barnsdall, an eccentric...