Boomer Residence
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 | Boomer Residence |
| Designer | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Location | Phoenix, Arizona, USA |
| Date | 1953 |
| Building Type | small house, cottage |
| Climate | desert |
| Context | suburban |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Street Address | 5808 North 30th Street |
| Notes | S.361. triangular grid. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Boomer_Residence.html |
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Discussion
This modest one-bedroom, two-bathroom desert cottage was designed for a single person. The plan is based on a grid of four-foot (1.2-meter) parallelograms which are, in turn, contained within a large triangular arrangement of rubblestone walls. A large central stone column rises through the two floors, enclosing fireplaces, chimney, and bathrooms.
A large pitched roof opens to the north, providing ample light while shading the interior from the direct glare of the Arizona sun. The ground floor contains the primary living spaces together with a carport and chauffeur's quarters. Most of the upper floor is devoted to a large bedroom, surrounded on three sides by a deck. The second bathroom and small servant's room are also on the upper floor.
Commentary
"This house for a single person, which Wright designated a 'mountain cottage,' is compacted into two stories around a central chimney flue. It is of desert rubblestone wall with some horizontal wood sheathing, notably in the bedroom balcony. It looks north, away from the desert sun."
—William Allin Storrer. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog. project 361.
The Creator's Words
"The architect must be the most comprehensive of all the masters, most comprehensive of all the human beings on earth. His work, the thing that is entrusted to him by way of his virtue, is the most broad of all."
"Making away with the box both in plan and elevation new became fundamental to my work. That opened the way for feeling the space within as the Reality of all true modern building....These structures now bear the message of this liberation of space to space."
—Frank Lloyd Wright. from Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland, ed. Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas. p8, 19.
Address
5808 North 30th Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85016
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References
Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. grid geometry diagram, p195.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Yukio Futagawa, ed. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959. Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita Tokyo, 1988. NA737.W7A408 1988. ground floor plan, p83. upper floor plan, p83. section, p84. section, p84. elevation, p84.
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland, ed. Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-8-93-1421-5. LC 87-20755. NA737.W7A4 1988. p8, 19.
William Allin Storrer. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: a Complete Catalog. Second Edition. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1979. ISBN 0-262-19171-7. LC 78-1306. NA737.W7A4 1978. photo of exterior, p361. project 361. geographical index p13.
William Allin Storrer. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. ISBN 0-226-77624-7. LC 93-30127. NA737.W7A4 1993. plan drawing.— Perhaps the definitve catalog of all of Wright's built projects. Available at Amazon.com
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