Grant Scholbrock lives in Portland, Oregon, and – if these photographs are any measure – is one of the greatest Lego architects of our time. His focus includes architecturally significant and unique skyscrapers in the United States, landmarks across the world (check his photostream for a terrific White House and Taj Mahal), as well as important Arts & Crafts homes.
After his earlier (and beautiful) Robie House model, Grant decided to build a tableaux of the Greene brothers' Gamble House in Pasadena. After Three months worth of work and at least 500 blocks – which included a trip to Los Angeles to visit the real thing (Grant took numerous photographs of various details to supplement the images he found online; this was his sixth trip to visit the building), the piece is finally finished. He's had several requests for various Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, and hopes to someday complete a model of the Blacker House, especially if he's able to visit it during the 2010 Pasadena Heritage Weekend.
See more photographs of this project – and many others – in Grant's Flickr stream. And, if you're so inclined, Grant and I would both like to know what you'd like his next project to be – do you have any favorite buildings that would lend themselves to this kind of model-making?
This really hit me where I live – since our home is a Greene and Greene inspired Bungalow, plus the environment where we raised two “Legomaniacs” into young adulthood. Both sons have been equally inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement, and I’ve formed http://craftsmantouch.com as a resource for people interested in the Craftsman Style. I will forward this post on to our oldest, a budding architect, and our highschooler who once made a Lego version of our own house!
Maybe have a model of lego first before you build your own house.