Editing Lloyd Wright (section)

==Early years==
Born on March 31, 1890, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. was the eldest son of renowned architect [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] and Wright's first wife, Catherine Lee "Kitty" Tobin Wright. He spent his early years at his [[Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio|father's home and studio]] in [[Oak Park, Illinois]]. Wright briefly attended the [[University of Wisconsin]] in [[Madison, Wisconsin|Madison]] for two years of coursework in [[agronomy]] and [[engineering]] before traveling extensively through Europe after his father moved to Italy in 1909.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/293/|title=Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. (Architect)|publisher=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|access-date=2018-06-07}}</ref><ref name="Lloyd Wright">{{cite web|url=https://www.laconservancy.org/architects/lloyd-wright|title=Lloyd Wright|publisher=[[Los Angeles Conservancy]]|access-date=2018-06-08}}</ref>

In 1911, Wright joined the landscape firm [[List of Olmsted works#Olmsted Brothers|Olmsted and Olmsted]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], where he specialized in [[botany]] and [[horticulture]]. Wright would be later sent to [[San Diego, California]] to assist with the landscape design of the 1915 [[Panama–California Exposition]] with architects [[Bertram Goodhue]], [[Carleton Winslow]], and [[Irving Gill]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usmodernist.org/lwright.htm|title=Frank LLoyd Wright, Jr., aka Lloyd Wright(1890-1978)|publisher=USModnerist|access-date=2018-06-08}}</ref> The exposition's principal buildings and gardens still remain in [[Balboa Park (San Diego)|Balboa Park]]. Landscape design led him to work with Los Angeles architect [[William J. Dodd]], and in San Diego with Irving Gill, the latter another master architect and mentor to his design career. In the mid-1910s, Wright formed a landscape partnership with [[Paul Thiene]], a colleague from the Olmsted firm, before opening his own practice in 1916.<ref name="Lloyd Wright"/> Beginning in 1919, his father, working in Japan on the [[Imperial Hotel, Tokyo|Imperial Hotel]], delegated some of the responsibilities to him and architect [[Rudolph Schindler (architect)|Rudolf Schindler]] to supervise construction of the [[Hollyhock House]], while Wright worked on the Imperial Hotel in Japan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usmodernist.org/lwright.htm|title=Frank LLoyd Wright, Jr., aka Lloyd Wright(1890-1978)|publisher=USModnerist|access-date=2018-06-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/1108/|title=Barnsdall, Aline, House, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA|publisher=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|access-date=2018-06-07}}</ref> The house was commissioned by the oil heiress and philanthropist [[Aline Barnsdall]].

Wright began his independent career in 1920. In 1922, he was a production designer at [[Paramount Studios]], responsible for the extensive castle and 12th-century village sets for the [[Douglas Fairbanks]] version of [[Robin Hood (1922 film)|Robin Hood]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.celebhomes.net/celebrityhomes/lloyd-wright-samuel-novarro/|title=Lloyd Wright's Samuel-Novarro House|date=23 May 2013 |publisher=CelebHomes|access-date=2018-06-08}}</ref> In December 1922, Wright prepared plans for the Henry Bollman House in Hollywood that included a repeated pattern of concrete blocks, a precursor to his father's more famous [[Textile block house|"textile block" houses]] in the Los Angeles area.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sweeney|first=Robert L.|date=July 18, 1994|title=Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture|publisher=[[MIT Press]]|isbn=978-0-26-219337-5}}</ref> From 1923 through 1926, the younger Wright was drawn into the realization of these four houses, and the ambitious attempt to evolve the "textile block" system into a patented construction technique. The first was the 1923 [[Millard House]] in [[Pasadena, California]] where Lloyd designed the grounds, and contributed an adjacent studio building in 1926. Lloyd served as construction manager for the other three: the [[Storer House (Los Angeles, California)|Storer House]] (1923), the [[Samuel Freeman House]] (1923), and the [[Ennis House]] (1924). By all accounts Lloyd's work was difficult as he shuttled back and forth between sites, communicating with his father via telegram, and receiving little constructive support from [[Taliesin (studio)|Taliesin]].