Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House

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Frank Lloyd Wright designed and realized over 500 buildings between 1886 and 1959 for quite a lot of clients. In Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House, architect Steven M. Reiss presents the up to date and detailed story of one of Wright’s few Virginia commissions. Designed and built for Loren and Charlotte Pope and later purchased by Marjorie and Robert Leighey, the Pope-Leighey House stands as a stunning example of an innovative form of shelter―which Wright called Usonian―for families beset by the Great Depression. Here, and elsewhere, Wright offered a unique and unprecedented approach for homes that would be small yet architecturally significant, carefully sited, and constructed of readily to be had local materials. He believed that any one with an acre of land must have the opportunity to own a Usonian home.

Set in Northern Virginia, the Pope-Leighey House has an strange history in that it has been moved twice, first to the grounds of the National Believe’s Woodlawn to rescue it from the path of Route 66 in Falls Church, then to re-site it to better correspond to its original orientation. Wright’s mission was once to remind us that “we want to see life in simpler terms.” In this amply illustrated book, Reiss echoes Wright’s reminder that small, carefully built structures must be the place to begin of sustainable and environmentally responsible house design.

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