Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. grew up in Oak Park, IL before moving to San Diego circa 1911 to work for Olmstead Brothers on the preparations for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition. Between 1912-13 Lloyd worked in Irving Gill's office. In 1919, Lloyd Wright worked alongside Rudolf Schindler on his father’s Hollyhock House and other projects in Los Angeles before launching his own career.
Lloyd Wright, or Frank Lloyd Wright Jr., was born to Frank Lloyd Wright's first wife, Catherine Lee "Kitty" Tobin and grew up in his father’s Wright Home and Studio (1889) in Oak Park, Illinois. He moved to San Diego circa 1911 with his brother John. Here, the two worked for landscape architecture firm Olmstead Brothers on the preparations for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. Between 1912-13 Lloyd worked in Irving Gill's office as draftsman and landscape architect.
In 1919, Lloyd Wright worked alongside Rudolf Schindler on his father’s Hollyhock House in Hollywood as well as the ‘textile block’ houses of the 1920s in Los Angeles before launching his own design career. Widely recognized for his Wayfarers Chapel on the coast at Rancho Palos Verdes (1951), Wright’s work was recognized often through his son Eric Lloyd Wright’s career in restoring them. A comprehensive monograph on Lloyd Wright and his work, Lloyd Wright, the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. was published in 1998.
Russell E. Babcock Residence (1953)
Mission Cliffs Drive, University Heights
Unbuilt
Student Housing for Lincoln Fidelity Corporation (1964)
La Jolla
Unbuilt
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