Original drawing by Frank Lloyd Wright

Description

Original drawing by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, including handwritten notes on constructive details. Made in pencil, colored pencils and ink.
Frank Lloyd Wrigh (1867 - 1959) was an American architect, one of the leading masters of twentieth-century architecture. Precursor of organic architecture, initiator of the Prairie School movement, developing the Usonian concept of housing.
Considered one of the most important architects in history, with an extensive list of works that he created mainly in the first half of the twentieth century, being the author of buildings as the well-known Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Waterfall House (Fallingwater ) or the Tokyo Imperial Hotel.
In 2017, the MOMA in New York held the exhibition “Frank Lloyd Wright, Unpacking the Archive”, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth, where numerous drawings similar to these were shown.
This drawing corresponds to the design of the Rayward house, also known as Tirranna, built in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1955 for Joyce and John Rayward. In this house you can appreciate the essence of the concept of Wright's organic architecture in which all the technical detail of the architectural and engineering work merges with the art of creating new forms that integrate with the surrounding nature.
This drawing is titled "Workspace details", numbered "8" and includes the typical FLLW red square. I bought  at Heritage Auctions in October, 2018 (lot 79103) the complete project for this house by FLLW. This drawing is one of the drawings included in that lot.