How many textile blocks were used in the Ennis House?

How many textile blocks were used in the Ennis House?

• A. Fewer than 10,000
• B. About 15,000
• C. More than 27,000
• D. Over 100,000

Answer: (C)

Textile blocks are decorative concrete units used to build walls with a woven, patterned look. The Ennis House, a famous Frank Lloyd Wright design in Los Angeles, is notable for the sheer volume of these blocks in its exterior. Estimates place the number of blocks well into the tens of thousands—more than twenty-seven thousand (some sources say around twenty-eight thousand). That scale makes the description “more than twenty-seven thousand” the accurate choice, since the project used far more blocks than the other options suggest.

Textile blocks are decorative concrete units used to build walls with a woven, patterned look. The Ennis House, a famous Frank Lloyd Wright design in Los Angeles, is notable for the sheer volume of these blocks in its exterior. Estimates place the number of blocks well into the tens of thousands—more than twenty-seven thousand (some sources say around twenty-eight thousand). That scale makes the description “more than twenty-seven thousand” the accurate choice, since the project used far more blocks than the other options suggest.