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Book Chronicles the ‘History, Design and Restoration’ of Chicago’s Emil and Anna Bach House
Interview with Brian R. Hannan
As Bob Hartnett wrote a book — his first — about the home Frank Lloyd Wright designed for Emil and Anna Bach, he took a page from his tour guide training.
“The instructors told us, if we were ever stuck for something to say, to just look around the room you are in and describe what you see,” Hartnett recalled. “In one sense, the Bach House speaks for itself, and all I needed to do, to create something worth sharing, was look around and describe what I saw.”
He continued: “My original thought for the book was to describe who Emil and Anna were and how they came to build their house with Wright as their architect. I also decided to briefly discuss the other owners so that readers would get a sense of who lived in the house.
“I did feel it was important to describe the efforts former owners took to secure the house and those who changed the house from the wa
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Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright
In 1936 at about the same time as Fallingwater and The Johnson Wax Building, Frank Lloyd Wright designed for Herbert and Katherine Jacobs of Madison, WI his first Usonian house. The Jacobs House I is considered one of the twenty most important houses in the U.S. by the American Institute of Architects, inspiring the wildly popular ranch-style home prevalent in the Post World War II housing boom.
Wright considered his Usonians to be of and for the American middle-class people and a break from the European influence of nearly all homes in America before it. There is no one feature which is truly unique to the Usonian designs, but rather there is a collection of features which distinguishes them.
- The house is sited to the front of the lot more than is typical, leaving a spacious private area to the rear for family use. Hajjar widely followed this principle, sometimes leaving very small front yards on an otherwise spacious lot.
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The Buildings of Wright’s Chicago Years
Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural principles were forged in the pioneering environment of late-nineteenth-century Chicago. Arriving in 1887, Wright would spend the first twenty years of his career working in the city and its suburbs. Chicago offered Wright an immersive environment of creativity and inspiration that shaped his architectural philosophies and laid the foundation for his future career. Listed here are the projects designed and built bygd Wright during his Chicago years. The buildings appear chronologically, dated by their original drawings. To learn more about each building click on the building’s name.
In early 1888, following a brief tenure with the architect Joseph Silsbee, Wright secured a position with the prestigious architectural firm of Adler & Sullivan. Wright was profoundly influenced bygd Louis Sullivan's idea of a uniquely American architecture reflecting the Midwestern landscape and suited to a modern American