We received an email from one of the collaborators of HollywoodlandWright.com that we posted about yesterday and wanted to share with you all a bit more of the story behind the website...
Jory Kruspe (www.analogue.ca) and I have been working on a site- www.garyandrewpoole.com--related to my forthcoming book, a biography of Red Grange, a 1920s football star, Chicago sports legend, and American icon.
We were talking one day about Los Angeles architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright. Kruspe, a Web designer and artist in Ottawa, is a Wright aficionado and he came up with the idea for a FLW site focusing on Wright's homes from the 1920s.
We loved Wright's counter-intuitive notion about concrete--that he wanted to build beautiful buildings from a material he called--"the gutter rot of architecture." We wanted to honor the audacious originality of these dwellings.
I set out on early, clear mornings to take photographs of the homes because the waking-hours- light really showed off the concrete, and I also wanted to give viewers a sense of how the buildings would have appeared in the 1920s, pre-air pollution.
For my Red Grange/book site, we are using period fonts, photographs, film, music, etc. It really looks and sounds cool and it will be an incredibly rich and historically accurate experience. I had the notion that we would follow the same pattern on HollywoodlandWright, but Jory had a different, and better idea. Since the site is dedicated to the brilliance of Wright, Jory felt like over designing the Website would overshadow FLW's buildings. So his idea was to make the experience simple, like a white-walled, track-lit gallery exhibition. We are the curators, stepping back to show off Wright's brilliance.
Thank you for sharing the site with the PrairieMod readers. Keep up the good work.
All the best,
Gary Andrew Pool
Image copyright HollywoodlandWright.com
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