14 Facts About Lloyd Wright

Lloyd Wright was a landscape architect for various Los Angeles projects, provided the shells for the Hollywood Bowl, and produced the Swedenborg Memorial Chapel at Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

Lloyd Wright's name is frequently confused with that of his more famous father, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Lloyd Wright spent his early years at his father's home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois.

In 1911, Lloyd Wright joined the landscape firm Olmsted and Olmsted in Boston, Massachusetts, where he specialized in botany and horticulture.

In December 1922, Lloyd Wright prepared plans for the Henry Bollman House in Hollywood that included a repeated pattern of concrete blocks, a precursor to his father's more famous "textile block" houses in the Los Angeles area.

From 1923 through 1926, the younger Lloyd Wright was drawn into the realization of these four houses, and the ambitious attempt to evolve the "textile block" system into a patented construction technique.

The first was the 1923 Millard House in Pasadena, California where Lloyd Wright designed the grounds, and contributed an adjacent studio building in 1926.

Lloyd Wright served as construction manager for the other three: the Storer House, the Samuel Freeman House, and the Ennis House.

Lloyd Wright designed and built a number of houses in the Hollywood and Los Feliz districts of Los Angeles in the mid- to late 1920s.

Lloyd Wright designed and built his own home with a ground floor studio and second floor residence, using concrete blocks, in West Hollywood in the 1920s.

Lloyd Wright designed the second and third band shells at the Hollywood Bowl.

Lloyd Wright had an embracing grove of Redwoods planted to achieve this.

In 1922 Lloyd Wright married the actress and artist Elaine Hyman.

In 1929, Lloyd and Helen became the parents of architect Eric Lloyd Wright, who has consulted on the restoration of many of his father's and grandfather's works, as well as being independently creative.