Architect:
Frank Lloyd Wright
Location:
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Jacobs House is located in a residential area southwest of downtown Madison, on the east side of Toepfer Avenue, between Birch and Euclid Avenues. It is a modest one-storey structure, with an exterior consisting of a combination of bricks, vertical boarding panels and glass doors, the latter opening at the back of the house. . It is covered by a flat roof and rests on a concrete foundation. Its interior space is only 140 square meters and has two bedrooms. The original heating system of the house consisted of steam heating pipes laid in the sand base under the concrete base. The oven that supplied the heat of the steam was located in a small basement under the kitchen.
Objectives:
Exercise of introducing research in project theory
Search of information in specialized sources, collection and selection of information
Production of research texts and development of the capacity to work as a team
Ability to interpret projects / works of architecture
Ability to reflect and write and oral synthesis
Methodology:
Organization of working groups (max. 2 members of the same class).
Election of an author to investigate.
General search of the constructed work of this author.
Election of a paradigmatic work of this author.
Specific study of the work and the author (biographical data, the theoretical approach to works that precedes the chosen work.)
Research on the project / work.
Model by:
Stefan and Yoleni
