Building with Frank Lloyd Wright: An Illustrated Memoir (Wright Studies)
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This is the first-hand account of a young couple who in 1936 challenged Wright to produce a decent house for $5,000. Wright responded with the innovations--floor heating, flat roof, concrete floor, solid walls, grouping of utilities, carport, seclusion from the street but openness to a garden through banks of door windows--that made their house the revolutionary "Usonia Number One."
Within five years the Jacobs moved to the country, where Wright designed the "Solar Hemicycle," which featured a windfoil design and the passive solar construction that became the prototype for such buildings. The 89 illustrations show the construction and important details of both houses.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0809312913
ISBN13:9780809312917
Release Date:May 1986
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:8.5" x 0.5" x 10.0"
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