Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 183 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
Contents |
Foreword -- People to Know -- Part One. How to Find a House by Frank Lloyd Wright -- 1. The Announcement -- 2. Hidden in Plain Sight -- 3. Wright's America -- 4. The Americans -- 5. The Tour -- 6. The System -- 7. The Timeline -- Part Two. How to Lose a House by Frank Lloyd Wright -- 8. The Afterthought -- 9. The Delay -- 10. The Finding -- 11. The Scare -- 12. The Records -- 13. The Unraveling -- 14. The Exception -- 15. The Flip -- Part Three. How to Build an Architectural Legacy -- 16. The Miss -- 17. The Overlap -- 18. The Pickup -- 19. The Silence --20. The Submission -- 21. The Legacy -- 22. The Man with the Hat -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology, 1914-19 -- Notes -- Index |
Summary |
Frank Lloyd Wright's foray into affordable housing--the American System-Built Homes--is frequently overlooked. When Nicholas and Angela Hayes became stewards of one of them, they began to unearth evidence that revealed a one-hundred-year-old fiasco fueled by competing ambitions and conflicting visions that eventually gave way to Wright's most creative period |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175) and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed July 31, 2023) |
Subject |
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
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SUBJECT |
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 fast |
Subject |
Elizabeth Murphy House (Shorewood, Wis.)
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SUBJECT |
Elizabeth Murphy House (Shorewood, Wis.) fast |
Subject |
American System-Built Homes.
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Architect-designed houses -- Wisconsin -- Shorewood
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ARCHITECTURE / General
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American System-Built Homes
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Architect-designed houses
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Wisconsin -- Shorewood
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780299331832 |
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0299331830 |
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