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Visions of the Wright Way

            This grouping of four small apartments at the corner of Bandera Road and E. Skyview strikes me as very reminiscent of the Usonian work of Frank Lloyd Wright.  While better known for magnificent homes created for well-off clients, Wright also was very interested in developing a model of well designed homes for the middle class that could be built very cheaply using concrete blocks, broad wood siding and glass. 

I suspect that these apartments were designed by George Willis, a local architect who worked in Wright’s office for 4 years, He arrived in San Antonio in 1911 and worked for 5 years in the office of Atlee Ayres, San Antonio’s most prominent architect of the period.  

Although associated with a number of large high profile local buildings before his death in 1960, many of Willis’ smaller projects, such as Mac’s Flowers (now "The Squeezebox" on N. St. Mary's) and the Laurence Wright House, exhibit very strong Wrightian traits.

Taken in: United States / Texas / Balcones Heights (show map)

Taken on: February 14, 2007

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George Willis

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Sets appears in: • "Wright" Way

Groups appears in: • San Antonio's FlickrClubSA

Camera: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD C700UZ, f/4.0, 1/200 sec, 5.9mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD C700UZ
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	5.9mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Creative (Slow speed)
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
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