The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright - ACE129.6

Exterior of Wingspread, the house Wright built for Herbert F Johnson at Wind Point, Wisconsin, 1937. Aerial view of what Wright described as his "last great Prairie house". Exterior views and interior views. In 1937, Herbert and Katherine Jacobs challenged Wright to build them a home for no more than $5000. The Jacobs home in Madison, Wisconsin. The Jacobses interviewed. Herbert Jacobs explains (VO interior shots) that one cost saving was achieved by using bricks left over from the Johnson building. Exterior. The Jacobses interview: they decided to move out to the country and commissioned Wright to build them another house, Middleton Wisconsin, 1948. Photos of the completed house. Architectural drawings. Katherine Jacobs. Photos of interior. Herbert Jacobs talking about Wright’s name for the house, the Solar Hemicycle, which as recognised many years later as the prototype for passive solar design. The Jacobses. House in snow. Jacobs VO on the "sense of shelter and the sense of space".