Perhaps the first-built Usonian house. Images Available on The GBC CD-ROM . Contributions appreciated Drawings Available on The GBC CD-ROM . 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.
A Usonian house is always hungry for the ground, lives by it, becoming an integral feature of it. Frank Lloyd Wright. The first of two houses Wright designed for Herbert and Katherine Jacobs. 2 foot by 4 foot planning grid. Precedents in Architecture.