Editing Lloyd Wright (section)

==Independent work==
Wright designed and built a number of houses in the Hollywood and Los Feliz districts of Los Angeles in the mid- to late 1920s. Lloyd Wright's first residential commission, the Taggart House was built for the mother of his second wife, Helen Taggart, a registered [[Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument]] located next to the city's [[Griffith Park]]. Another significant project was the hillside house for the manager of film star [[Ramón Novarro]], and then a renovation and enlargement when Novarro himself acquired the residence. He also designed and built his own home with a ground floor studio and second floor residence, using concrete blocks, in [[West Hollywood, California|West Hollywood]] in the 1920s.

[[File:Wayferers Chapel.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Wayfarers Chapel on the coast at Rancho Palos Verdes, 1951]]
He also designed the second and third band shells at the [[Hollywood Bowl]]. The original 1926 shell, designed by the Allied Architects group, was considered unacceptable both visually and acoustically. Wright's 1927 shell had a pyramidal shape and a design reminiscent of southwest [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] architecture. According to [[Charles Willard Moore]], it was built from leftovers from the ''Robin Hood'' production. Its acoustics generally were regarded as the best of any shell in Bowl history. But its appearance was considered too avant-garde, or perhaps only ugly, and it was demolished at the end of the season. His 1928 wooden shell had the now-familiar concentric ring motif, covered a 120-degree arc, and was designed to be easily dismantled. Unfortunately it was neglected and ruined by water damage, making way for the 1929 Allied Architects shell, which stood until the end of the 2003 season.

In 1927, Wright built a residence for himself, made of two units – one for living and one for work. The 2,413 square feet (224.17 square meter) of living space has an upstairs residence with a living room, a fireplace and wooden floors. Interlocking blocks with a stylized [[Yucca brevifolia|Joshua tree]] design overlay some of the windows.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-lloyd-wright-studio-20150216-story.html|title=Lloyd Wright's live-work space in WeHo finds a buyer|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=16 February 2015|access-date=2018-06-09}}</ref> The [[Great Depression]] stalled Wright's firm as he was reaching his artistic and professional peak. As for many architects, remodellings, rather than total designs, were the scope of 1930s work. His post-war designs became more expressionistic and less aligned to previous modernist architectural themes. He also promoted the word [[Usonia]].

The largest collection of Lloyd Wright buildings in the United States was built in phases (1946–1957) for the [[Edwin Dingle#Institute of Mentalphysics|Institute of Mentalphysics]], located on a large [[Mojave Desert]] site next to the town of [[Joshua Tree, California|Joshua Tree]], to the east of [[Joshua Tree National Park]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jtrcc.org/|title=Joshua Tree Retreat Center - Institute of Mentalphysics|publisher=Joshua Tree Retreat Center|access-date=2018-06-09}}</ref>