click to enlargeAP212 (second year design studio) visited a ‘Classic Usonian’ house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1950. The house, built for Isadore J. and Lucille Zimmerman is located in Manchester, NH and is a beautifully restored example of Mr. Wrights work. 

click to enlargeThe house uses cypress, concrete, glass, and brick. Students had a hard time finding an instance where the module of the common brick was broken, but may have found a clue in the upper corner of Ms. Zimmerman’s closet. Precast concrete window blocks, made specifically for the Zimmerman house, sit atop a double-wythe brick wall from the street side elevation. The garden elevation wall is almost entirely glass and sits 5’ behind and below a cantilevered, tiled roof.

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