It was between 1947 and 1953 that he privately designed a residence for his friend Charles Wright, in Meadowvale Road, Springfield. The client-architect relationship had a significant impact on the design of this residence. Designed in the Modern style the house is a composition of intersecting planes and cubic forms. The walls are painted white to emphasise the massing of elements and a flat roof is concealed behind the parapet walls. The grid like structure of the ‘egg-crate’ wall creates deep shadowing which modulates the front elevation. The Wright residence features functional planning with the living areas to the north of the building and the sleeping areas to the south separated by a large hall which is also the main entry to the house.
The Wright residence stands out, along with Ellis’ own residence at Springfield as an early local example of residential Modernism in Adelaide. Influences of early Modernists which can be seen in the Wright residence include those of Gropius and of the Bauhaus (RAIA website). | 
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