Ennis House

This guide to the Ennis House above Los Feliz traces the Mayan Revival fortress Frank Lloyd Wright built in 1925 from more than twenty-seven thousand hand-cast concrete blocks pressed with a Greek-key pattern, and the flaws in his own chosen materials that began working against the house almost immediately. You'll hear how his son Lloyd, hired to supervise construction, clashed with owners Charles and Mabel Ennis over windows and lintels and quit before it was finished, and how the house passed from owner to owner for decades, its concrete corridors drawing Hollywood film crews, most famously for Blade Runner. Look at the pattern in the wall as you take it in.