Architecture Publications
Campus Units
Architecture
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
10-15-2019
Journal or Book Title
Midwest Architecture Journeys. Edited by Zach Mortice, with an introduction by Alexandra Lange
Volume
Section 2
First Page
70
Last Page
76
Abstract
In 1945, as the war in Europe came to an end, popular press journals throughout America featured designs for houses to be built rapidly and inexpensively for returning solider and their future families. Frank Lloyd Wright, at the time seventy-eight years old, understood this need as an opportunity to populate the nation with his novel design for what he called "the little American house". Wright believed the domestic environment should be "organic" and "natural" and that each house, no matter how small, should be custom-fitted to its site. But the great demand for houses suggested they not be custom-fitted to a unique site, but that they should be closely packed on flat, monotonous parcels of land with no natural amenities, and that they be built quickly in the easiest way possible. What to do?
Copyright Owner
Belt Publishing
Copyright Date
2019
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Naegele, Daniel J., "Making Nature Present: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Magazine House in Iowa" (2019). Architecture Publications. 103.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/arch_pubs/103
Included in
Architectural History and Criticism Commons, Environmental Design Commons, Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons
Comments
This book chapter is published as Naegle, D. Making Nature Present: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Magazine House in Iowa,” a chapter in Midwest Architecture Journeys (Cleveland: Belt Publishing, 2019) section 2/ ISBN 9781948742573. Posted with permission.