Jacobs House-Madison
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 | Jacobs House, Madison |
| Designer | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Location | Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
| Date | 1936 |
| Building Type | house |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | suburban |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Street Address | 441 Toepfer Ave |
| Notes | S.234. Perhaps the first-built Usonian house. L-shaped plan, with largely-glazed walls on the inside of the ell facing south and west, under deep overhangs. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Jacobs_House-Madison.html |
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Commentary
The Jacobs House "is a berm-type dwelling similar to the Detroit cooperative.... On the exposed hilltop site, excavation of the sunken cycle in front of the hemicycle facing to the South furnishes the earth-bank surrounding the building to the North. The sunken cycle partly protects exposed glass surfaces from winds and affords sheltered space in which children will play. Bedrooms are on mezzanine overlooking the living room."
— Frank Lloyd Wright. "Frank Lloyd Wright", The Architectural Forum, January, 1948, Vol 88 Number 1. p74.
The Creator's Words
Referring to Usonian houses:
"We can never make the living room big enough, the fireplace important enough, or the sense of relationship between exterior, interior and environment close enough, or get enough of these good things I've just mentioned. A Usonian house is always hungry for the ground, lives by it, becoming an integral feature of it."
— Frank Lloyd Wright. "Frank Lloyd Wright", The Architectural Forum, January, 1948, Vol 88 Number 1. p71.
Details
The first of two houses Wright designed for Herbert and Katherine Jacobs.
2 foot by 4 foot planning grid.
Original cost of $5500.
Address:
441 Toepfer Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53711
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Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. geometry diagram, p191.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Peter Gossel and Gabriele Leuthauser. Architecture in the Twentieth Century. Germany: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1991. ISBN 3-8228-0550-5. exterior photos, p244-245, plan drawing, p245.
Bruce Pfeiffer. Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. exterior perspective drawing, p45.
William Allin Storrer. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: a Complete Catalog. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1978. photo of exterior, p234.
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. Available at Amazon.com
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