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Architect Vernacular Location Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida Date 1800 to 1900 timeline Building Type small house, log cabin
Construction System stacked logs or wood frame Subscribers - login to skip ads Climate hot, humid Context rural Style Southeastern U.S. Vernacular Notes Found around the southeastern U.S., through Tennessee. Images
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Discussion Dogtrot House Commentary
“One of the more ingenious methods of cooling in the days before air conditioning, the Dogtrot house originated in the southern Appalachian Mountain region. It is distinguished by an open breezeway that extends through the center of the house, off of which open the rooms. With this design, cooling breezes flow through the open core and into the rooms where windows on the exterior walls create cross-ventilation.”
— Jim Kemp. American Vernacular: Regional Influence in Architecture and Interior Design. Washington, D.C.: The American Institute of Architects Press, 1990. p79. Resources GreatBuildings Resources Amazon Books Sources on Dogtrot House
Jim Kemp. American Vernacular, Regional Influences in Architecture and Interior Design. Washington: American Institute of Architects Press, 1990. exterior photo from field, p78.
Fred Kniffen. Folk Housing: Key to Diffusion. Baton Rouge, LA: Association of American Geographers, 1965. NA7205.K575. p561.
Allen Noble. Wood, Brick, and Stone: the North American settlement landscape. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984. ISBN 0870234102.
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Farnsworth House
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Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Location Plano, Illinois map Date 1946 to 1950 timeline
Building Type house Construction System steel frame with glass Subscribers - login to skip ads Climate temperate Context rural
Style Modern Notes International Style exemplar. Glass and steel house hovers in meadow. Images
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Discussion Farnsworth House Commentary
"The Farnsworth house is Mies's summary statement of those spatial and architectural concerns he first realized in the Barcelona Pavilion, and which he further developed in the Tugendhat house.... However, contained in what is a pure expression of its age is another vision, that of a transparent house in a verdant landscape."
— David Spaeth. Mies Van Der Rohe. London: The Architectural Press, 1985. p125.
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American Institute of Architects 25 Year Award, 1981 Resources GreatBuildings Resources Amazon Books Sources on Farnsworth House
"Farnsworth House Saved", by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 179, 2004.0128, pN1.1.
"Mies, Classical Modernist", by Michael J. Crosbie, ArchitectureWeek No. 61, 2001.0808, pN1.1.
Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. plan and section diagram, p158. grid geometry diagram, p194. binuclear diagram, p204. Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Edward R. Ford. The Details of Modern Architecture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990. ISBN 0-262-06121-X. LC 89-31772. NA2840.F67 1989. exterior photos, construction section/anonmetric details, p266-267. drawing of wall section detail, p266. Highly recommended for serious observers, and available at Amazon.com
Paul Heyer. American Architecture: Ideas and Ideologies in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. ISBN 0-442-01328-0. LC 92-18415. NA2750.H48. exterior photo, p86.
Wolf Tegethoff. Mies van der Rohe, the Villias and Country Houses. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1985. photo of interior, f21.11. Color photo of exterior, f21.10. photo of exterior, f21.12.
Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper. American Architecture, Volume 2. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984. exterior photo, f284, p354. An excellent survey of American architecture. Reprint Edition Available at Amazon.com
Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com
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Rosenbaum House
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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
Location Florence, Alabama map
Date 1939 timeline
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Context Early Modern
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"...The living areas were more spacious, with an enlarged dining alcove, a 100-sq-ft study, and redesigned service core. By incorporating the heater at floorslab level, Wright was able to omit the small basement, together with its stair. This allowed extra circulation space and made the core an island with alternative routes about it, enhancing the house's apparent spaciousness. The bedroom wing of three rooms was terminated by a second bathroom.
"The house is the purest example of the Usonian. It incorporates detailing improvements and combines all the standard elements in a mature and spatially varied interior. Its exterior has an almost overpowering horizontality. The street facade forms a cypress wall from which springs the carport, a 20-ft cantilever utilizing concealed steelwork. Ten years after construction, the Rosenbaums had Wright extend the house. It thus became the first Usonian to be radically altered, something which owners of Wright houses were loath to do, but which he himself always saw as potentially inherent in an organic building. This addition backed a second L onto the first, containing a Japanese garden. With four sons in the family, extra sleeping accommodations were required. A quiet guest room terminated one arm, and the other contained a family kitchen, bunk-playroom, and utility room with second carport."
— John Sergeant. Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses: The Case for Organic Architecture. p42.
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"The more any building as Idea is true to the Idea itself the better I like the building. The more it is likely to be in itself a free wholeness of expression of the Idea. It stands then for the ideal building that would be wholesome as a work of art. And the more the home is a work of art in our society now the better even for the selfish property instincts of the owner.
"What is called 'efficiency' among us is to be regarded with suspicion, or impatience, because it has too little sympathy with the deficiency that now goes with it....I believed that all was possible if in full accord with nature. I believed that less than this was the result of either poverty or sin."
— Frank Lloyd Wright. from Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright: A Testament. p108.
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