The Bungalow Book
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Published: 1923
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: bungalow; Charles E. White, Jr.; The Macmillan Company; American Institute of Architects; architecture; J.J. Little & Ives Company; construction
Description: <div>Hardback book with olive-green canvas covers. The title and author are in black ink on the front cover, while the back cover is blank. The title. author, and publishing company name are on the spine in gold ink. Inside the front cover is an old library card and pocket from the Young Men's Lyceum Public Library. The sticker from the YMLPL has a blue stamp from the Highland Manor (a girls' school in NY). The covers are coming loose from the binding in several places. Many of the interior pages have slight brown discoloration. The illustrations and floor plans inside are all black and white. See below for information about the author, Charles E. White, Jr. 221 pages. Size: 5.5" x 8.25" x 1.25"<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>***From wikipedia.com: "For approximately eight years, White worked in the East, chiefly practicing architecture with Walter R. B. Wilcox in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington,_Vermont" title="Burlington, Vermont" rel="nofollow">Burlington, Vermont</a>.
  At the age of twenty-seven, White then moved to Chicago in 1903 to 
work for Frank Lloyd Wright, at the time when other employees in the 
studio included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Burley_Griffin" title="Walter Burley Griffin" rel="nofollow">Walter Burley Griffin</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Mahony" class="mw-redirect" title="Marion Mahony" rel="nofollow">Marion Mahony</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Roberts" title="Isabel Roberts" rel="nofollow">Isabel Roberts</a>, and artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bock" title="Richard Bock" rel="nofollow">Richard Bock</a>.
  The letters which White wrote to his friend Wilcox offer valuable 
insights into the building methods, working relationships and 
responsibilities of the Oak Park studio in what has been called Wright’s
 "first golden age" when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_Style" class="mw-redirect" title="Prairie Style" rel="nofollow">Prairie Style</a> was developed.<sup class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._White_Jr.#cite_note-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a></sup>
  When writing about this time in his life, some architectural 
historians have mistakenly called White a "student” or “apprentice” of 
Frank Lloyd Wright; both terms are incorrect.  White was an architect in
 his own right, having practiced architecture for nearly a decade in the
 East before the three years when he worked in the Oak Park studio.
<p>By 1905 White launched his own practice in Oak Park.  He designed
 and built his own studio and collaborated with Wright and Vernon S. 
Watson on the River Forest Tennis Club of 1906.  His office was busy 
with many commissions in the years leading up to World War I.<sup class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._White_Jr.#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a></sup>
</p><p>In addition to the practice of architecture, White wrote a number
 of influential articles about home building, ranging from matters of 
taste and design to construction methods. These were widely circulated 
in popular home magazines of the day.  White was also a champion of 
fireproof hollow tile construction and helped to popularize it 
nationally.  A gifted renderer, his architectural illustrations often 
accompanied his writings, which featured the work of many different 
colleagues, including, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright" title="Frank Lloyd Wright" rel="nofollow">Frank Lloyd Wright</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Mahony_Griffin" title="Marion Mahony Griffin" rel="nofollow">Marion Mahony Griffin</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Burley_Griffin" title="Walter Burley Griffin" rel="nofollow">Walter Burley Griffin</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Eugene_Drummond" title="William Eugene Drummond" rel="nofollow">William Eugene Drummond</a>, as well as his own designs.
</p><p>During the Great War he served in the quartermaster corps.<sup class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._White_Jr.#cite_note-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a></sup>
  In 1922 White formed a partnership with fellow MIT graduate Bertram A.
 Weber; Weber had worked in the office of noted Chicago architect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Van_Doren_Shaw" title="Howard Van Doren Shaw" rel="nofollow">Howard Van Doren Shaw</a>
 (MIT class of 1892) prior to their partnership.  The firm of White and 
Weber continued to practice in Chicago until White's death in 1936.<sup class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_E._White_Jr.#cite_note-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a></sup>  They designed the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco" title="Art Deco" rel="nofollow">Art Deco</a> United States Post Office (1933) in Oak Park, the Rectory of the Grace Episcopal Church, Oak Park, as well as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haish_Memorial_Library" title="Haish Memorial Library" rel="nofollow">Haish Memorial Library</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekalb,_Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Dekalb, Illinois" rel="nofollow">Dekalb, Illinois</a>, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco" title="Art Deco" rel="nofollow">Art Deco</a> Indiana limestone building on the National Register of Historic Places."
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