This is not a coffee table book full of pretty color pictures. It is an excellent book for the serious student of Frank Lloyd Wright's work. It concentrates on Wright's search for an inexpensive means to provide architecturally significant homes for people of moderate means. It extensively covers the design and construction methods used to create the famous $5700 Jacobs House in 1937 as well as covering dozens of other designs. It shows how the basic Usonian concept was expanded into the more elaborate houses of Wright's later career. The book has several B & W pictures as well as a full page house plan for every major design of the early Usonian era as well as variants like the Hanna's Honeycomb house, and the Sturges, Pew, Schwartz, and other designs. The most useful part of the book for me was a section through Wright's famous 3 inch thick board and batten wall and roof system used in the Jacobs House as well as a detail sheet showing the individual parts of the wall system. There are few disappointments- plans of un-built projects can be quite small, but I'm grateful that they were provided at all as they are rarely seen. The magazine articles reprinted in the later chapters are also too small, but display houses that get too little attention. This book and the FLW Companion are must-haves for the serious Wright student.Read full review
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