Eric Lloyd Wright

Eric Lloyd Wright

Eric Lloyd Wright is an American architect and the grandson of the famed Frank Lloyd Wright.

Wright was born in Los Angeles on November 9, 1929 to Helen Taggart and Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.), a landscape architect and architect who was the eldest son of Frank Lloyd Wright Sr.

Educated at the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, Eric worked in his grandfather's (1948-1956) and father's (1956-1978) firm as an apprentice before establishing his own firm, "Eric Lloyd Wright Architects and Planners", in 1978. He also is responsible for a number of restoration projects to his grandfather's buildings:

* Storer Residence - Los Angeles, California
* Ennis Residence - Los Angeles, California
* Auldbrass Plantation - Yemassee, South Carolina
* Eric Lloyd Wright Boulder House - an adaptation of a original design by his grandfather in Malibu, California
* Greer Ranch - Murrietta, California
* Murrietta Oaks - Murrietta, California

A list of projects worked on by Eric Lloyd Wright:

* Walker Residence, Carmel, California
* Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
* Tonkens Residence, Cincinnati, Ohio
* Monona Terrace, Madison, Wisconsin
* The Wayfarer’s Chapel, Palos Verdes, California
* First Christian Church, Thousand Oaks, California
* The Good Shepherd Church, Des Plaines, Illinois
* The Institute of Mental Physics Yucca Valley, California
* Student & Faculty Housing Project for U.C., San Diego, California
* Solar Farms Project, Farming & Education, Apple Valley, California
* Humane Society Animal Shelter and Office, Ventura, California
* Swedenborge Church Conference Center, Westchester, Pennsylvania
* Visitor’s Center for The Wayfarer’s Chapel Palos Verdes, California - as consultant to Dean Andrews
* Tenemos Conference Center Dormitory for the Swedenborgian Church, Westchester, Pennsylvania - with Jay Cooperson

Most of Wright's work is in the United States, but he worked on housing in Japan in 1995. He also helped established Chi-Am Group Incorporated and Chi-Am Consortium, a Chinese-American architectural firms in 1993.

References

* [http://elwright.net/eric_chronology.html Eric Lloyd Wright]


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