Butterfly Wood: Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie House West, Robert L. Ooley FAIA Author

120 pages, Paperback. Robert L. Ooley FAIA Author Erin Graffy ( Editor) T.C. Boyle (Forward) ISBN: 978-1-7333518-9-8 Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) became a household name for architects worldwide before many architects thought it possible. Wright took full advantage of this by treating architecture as a product and not so much as a service. This recognition was largely due to his provocative architectural design and tremulous private life, both of which played well in the press at the time. Surprisingly, it still does, almost 60 years after his death. Butterfly Wood opens the door into one of the architect’s last commissions of his Prairie Style and is the only example of that time in his career on the west coast of the United States. Located in the secluded enclave of Montecito, California, at the corner of Hot Springs and Summit Roads is this 4,500-square-foot redwood treasure. While Wright often advocated that the Prairie House came from and is an expression of the prairies of the