This American house : Frank Lloyd Wright's Meier House and the American System-Built Homes / Jason Loper and Michael Schreiber.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Pomegranate, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 128 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781087500614
- 1087500613
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Main Library | NonFiction | 728.3709 L864 | Available | 33111010567895 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Long before designing his signature Usonian houses, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned an earlier series of affordable models for the middle class: The American System-Built Homes. He developed seven floorplans of varying size and layout, standardized so that materials could be precut at the factory to reduce costs. Only a few years after the project began, the United States entered World War I, and all home construction was stalled due to lumber shortages. Wright then turned his attention to other projects, and with fewer than twenty built, the American System-Built Homes were all but forgotten.In 2011, Jason Loper and Michael Schreiber purchased the only American System-Built Home constructed in Iowa, the Meier House, which set them on a course of refurbishing and researching their new residence. In This American House, Loper and Schreiber trace the history of the Meier House through its previous owners, and shed light on this underexplored period of Wright's oeuvre. With a preface by John H. Waters, the Preservation Programs Manager of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, This American House addresses what it means to be the stewards of a piece of history.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / John H. Waters -- Introduction: Meeting Mr. Wright -- An American plan -- A home in a prairie town -- This American house -- If these walls could talk -- The accidental archivists.
"From 1914 to 1917 Frank Lloyd Wright developed a system of affordable ready-cut houses for the middle class: the American System-Built Homes. About twenty-five American System-Built Homes of varying sizes and floor plans were constructed before the project stalled due to lumber shortages, as the United States entered World War I in April 1917. Today, only about a dozen of the homes remain standing, including six on Milwaukee's Burnham Street. The Delbert W. Meier House (built in 1917 and named, per the custom with Wright houses, after its original owner) is the only American System-Built Home to have been constructed in Iowa and is one of only eleven Wright buildings in the state. In recent years, Wright's American System-Built Homes have been receiving international press due to the discovery of two previously unidentified models. This book presents the history, construction, and development of this under-explored period of Wright's oeuvre"-- Provided by publisher.