Building with Frank Lloyd Wright: An Illustrated Memoir

by Herbert Jacobs and Katherine Jacobs

Book Overview

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...

• 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: 0.5" x 10.0" x 8.5"