Building with Frank Lloyd Wright

An Illustrated Memoir

Herbert Jacobs, Katherine Jacobs (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

1986
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
9780809312917 (ISBN)

Infos

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 innovationsfloor heating, flat roof, concrete floor, solid walls, grouping of utilities, carport, seclusion from the street but openness to a garden through banks of door windowsthat 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."

Autor

Herbert Jacobs is a retired reporter, photographer, and editor for the Mil­waukee Journal and the Madison Capital Times. He was also an instructor in jour­nalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Katherine Wescott Jacobs, sis­ter of writer Glenway Wescott and articu­late advocate of Frank Lloyd Wright, is a professional sculptor.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Wright Studies
• Zusatzinfo: 79
• Verlagsort: Carbondale
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 254 x 216 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• ISBN-13: 9780809312917 / 9780809312917
• Zustand: Neuware