Lecture and architecture tour focus on Lloyd Wright

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Architect Lloyd Wright, eldest son of Frank Lloyd Wright, may have followed in his father’s career footsteps, but his projects -- including 1920s houses and two early shells for the Hollywood Bowl -- were infused with his own statement about the vibrancy of postwar Southern California.

On Saturday, architectural historian Dana Hutt will present a talk entitled ‘Lloyd Wright: Architect of Sunshine and Shadow,’ the last installment of this season’s Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series organized by the landmark Gamble House in Pasadena. The Hutt event starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

A related tour of three Lloyd Wright homes in the Los Angeles area is planned for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 8. The stops will be the Sowden House in Los Feliz and the Derby House in Glendale, pictured at right, both built in 1926, and the Gainsburg House in La Cañada Flintridge, above, built in 1946. ‘Lloyd Wright managed to distinguish himself as an architect, yet he drew from his father’s genius and made it his own,’ said Ted Bosley, director of the Gamble House. ‘In the homes on the tour, we get a sense of the evolution of his work from the early textured-block style to the modern world, and the debate about modernism after the Second World War.’

Tickets for the lecture are $15-$25 and can be purchased in advance or at the door. Home tour tickets, $35-$45, must be purchased in advance. Order online or call (626) 793-3334, Ext. 52.

-- Dinah Eng

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