Main entry:

Reiss, Steven M., 1948-

Title & Author:

Frank Lloyd Wright's Pope-Leighey House / Steven M. Reiss.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2014]

Description:

xx, 189 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The Falls Church years : Inspiration and commission -- Design of the Pope house -- Wright's apprentice -- The master carpenter -- Construction -- Living in the house -- Departure -- The Leigheys in Falls Church -- The Leigheys and the Pope house -- Landscaping -- The threat -- The rescue -- Marjorie Leighey in Japan -- The move to Woodlawn -- 2. The Woodlawn years : The house at Woodlawn -- Disrepair -- Completing the landscaping -- Furniture repair -- Roof maintenance -- Structural issues -- Marjorie Leighey's death -- 3. The second move : Uncertainty -- A new life for the house -- The second move -- Compromises -- The second rebuild -- Today -- The architecture of the Pope house -- Appendices : Loren Pope-Frank Lloyd Wright correspondence, 1947 to 1959 -- Essays from the original edition of The Pope-Leighey House -- Marjorie Leighey-John Pearce correspondence, 1967 -- Building instructions for the Pope house.

Summary:

Frank Lloyd Wright designed and realized over 500 buildings between 1886 and 1959 for a wide range of clients. In Frank Lloyd Wright's Pope-Leighey House, architect Steven M. Reiss presents the updated 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 available local materials. He believed that anyone with an acre of land should have the opportunity to own a Usonian home. Set in Northern Virginia, the Pope-Leighey House has an unusual history in that it has been moved twice, first to the grounds of the National Trust'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 to remind us that "we need to see life in simpler terms." In this amply illustrated book, Reiss echoes Wright's reminder that small, carefully built structures should be the starting point of sustainable and environmentally responsible house design.

ISBN:

9780813934976 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0813934974 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959.
Pope-Leighey House (Va.)
Pope-Leighey House (Virg.)
Usonian houses Virginia.
Historic buildings Conservation and restoration Virginia.
Usonian houses Virginie.
Monuments historiques Conservation et restauration Virginie.
Historic buildings Conservation and restoration.
Usonian houses.
Virginia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287686
Call No.: BIB 228981
Status: Available