Building with Frank Lloyd Wright: An Illustrated Memoir (Wright Studies)

ISBN: 0809312913

Author: Jacobs PhD, Mr. Herbert

Condition: New

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.