Building with Frank Lloyd Wright: An Illustrated Memoir
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Book Details
PublisherSouthern Illinois University Press
ISBN / ASIN0809312913
ISBN-139780809312917
Sales Rank1,549,817
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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 inÂnovations—floor heating, flat roof, conÂcrete floor, solid walls, grouping of utiliÂties, carport, seclusion from the street but openness to a garden through banks of door windows—that made their house the revolutionary “Usonia NumÂber One.â€
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Within five years the Jacobs moved to the country, where Wright designed the “Solar Hemicycle,†which featured a windfoil design and the passive solar conÂstruction that became the prototype for such buildings. The 89 illustrations show the construction and important details of both houses.
