Rosas Studio

Concept and Development:

THE STRUCTURE:
The Hollyhock House is Wright’s first Los Angeles project. Built between 1919 and 1923, it represents his earliest efforts to develop a regionally appropriate style of architecture for Southern California. Wright himself referred to it as California Romanza, using the musical term meaning “freedom to make one’s own form”.

Taking advantage of Los Angeles’ dry, temperate climate, Hollyhock House is a remarkable combination of house and gardens. In addition to the central garden court, each major interior space adjoins an equivalent exterior space, connected either by glass doors, a porch, pergola or colonnade. A series of rooftop terraces further extend the living space and provide magnificent views of the Los Angeles basin and the Hollywood Hills.
-Friends of Hollyhock House

In keeping with Wrights career philosophy of blurring boundaries between interior-exterior (and exterior to interior) spaces, the video projections on the exterior of the structure sought to further unify this central premise using still and time-based media captured inside and outside of the architecture, surrounding area, and gardens. The still impressions, time-lapse photography, digital video and audio samples were mixed and edited to create performative elements that would compliment and unite with the architecture while providing subtle ambiguous narrative structures to be heard, played, and projected throughout the landscape.