Oak Park And Frank Lloyd Wright: Architectural Analysis

My second elaboration paper is based on this week’s readings on architecture and modernism. My focus is on my hometown of Oak Park and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Village of Oak Park is internationally known for its historic architecture, with styles including Queen Anne, Prairie School and Colonial Revival. Oak Park is known particularly as the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Oak Park is located 8 miles west of downtown Chicago and holds the largest collection of Prairie School architecture in America, which includes 25 homes and business designs by Wright. The Village of Oak Park is often described as a “living museums” of American architecture. It hosts a large selection of modern architectural styles from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Of the buildings within the historic district over 20 of them were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Besides the structures designed by Wright there are over 60 other buildings designed by other architectures of Wright's Prairie School of architecture. The National Register of Historic Places
Leaders acted on a vision of Oak Park as a community strong enough to achieve integration. They even encouraged black home-seekers to live throughout Oak Park. They even encouraged whites to move to unattractive areas to limit the concentration of black residents in particular areas. The design of the village was a public relations campaign targeted to promote an image of Oak Park as a multicultural, cosmopolitan middle-class community, close to the city, with good transportation and schools. Even today, Oak Park has remained an integrated community that has succeeded in maintaining a public culture that takes pride in racial