You'd think living in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright would be cool enough for most kids, but twelve-year-old Jim Berger wanted more — at least for his dog. In 1956 he wrote Wright asking for a dog house to be designed to match his own home and, after a second request, Wright eventually complied. While it was demolished in 1973, it was recently rebuilt and is taking a tour across the country.
Wright sent Berger a full set of drawings for a triangular-shaped dog house that complemented the forms of the hexagonally shaped main house. The drawings provided a design that could be easily built with the mahogany and cedar lumber remnants used for the main house. It was built twice by Bergers' father and brother: first in 1963, and again in 2010 at the request of filmmaker Michael Miner. Miner is taking the reconstructed version on tour across the country as he promotes, Romanza, a film on Wright's work in California.
via Architizer, Architects + Artisans
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Unfortunately this design is from FLW's awful geometric phase, and not his prairie (dog) house phase...
FLW didn't have ANY awful phases!
Having toured many of FLW's houses, I'm sure this dog house was too small, the roof too low and the door too short & narrow for a Labrador Retriever (for whom the dog house was built)
Poor little Eddie was not the 'Wright' size for Wright's design :)
[disclaimer : well, i do love a lot of FLW's designs and have more tours planned to houses he has designed]
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The letter is the most charming element of all this. I guess Frank Lloyd Wright saved it.
Coolest thing to appear on Apartment Therapy...ever! What a wonderful story.
rapidtransitman - That's a pretty ridiculous thing to claim that Wright ever had anything remotely close to an "awful" phase.
bgsf - Having toured many Frank Lloyd Wright homes, and studied him, and looking at the pictures provided, I'm quite sure that doghouse was a perfectly fine size for the dog. I'm assuming you're referring to his Usonian homes, which may possibly be the only ones you've been in. The entire point of those were to create smaller scale, affordable homes, that were still very liveable...something our society would do well to embrace today.
Actually, I read about this dog house at another blog and, in fact, the dog refused to use it.
what a lucky dog!
See: http://architectsandartisans.com/index.php/2012/01/a-dog-house-by-frank-lloyd-wright/