Published by Wilkerson & Hughes, LLC - PO Box 777 - Altoona, FL 32702
52 Drawings - 84 Pages total
Wire Bound Cover Stock Card covers with 24 lb Natural Cream pages
Printed at 1200 dpi on a Commercial Digital Lithographic Printer
Very high D-Max black line density to equal original ink drawings
8.5" wide x 11" high
Weight - 8 ounces
ISBN 978-1-926517-66-7
This book contains the contents of a reprint of the Brickbuilder Magazine competition in 1913.
A Competition for a Small House to be built of Natco Hollow Tile to cost $4,000. This competition was sponsored by the National Fire Proofing Company of Pittsburgh to promote "Small House" design in an era when housing prices depressed housing construction starts. These houses look larger than what you would guess. The houses shown are smaller than 1,500 square feet. The architects who entered were the best in the entire United States community because of the very high prize awards offered. These designs represent Prairie Style, Colonial, French, English, Italian, Spanish, and Modern designs from architects trained during the Golden Age of architectural studio apprenticeships. These homes could be built today in brick, and stucco on concrete block.
One drawing was entered by "Lloyd Wright Brothers". It is a standard Cruciform Prairie Style house typical of this date period from Frank Lloyd Wright. Only smaller than normal to fit the competition size limits. It contains Frank Lloyd Wrights' graphic signature in the lower right quadrant of the drawing. A solid black box with an outline around it. This competition occurred several years after Mr. Wright abandoned his family and ran off with a clients' wife to Europe. Among architectural circles, his name was a disgrace among the profession so I can only guess that he chose to leave it off the entry. Everybody knew who designed that house anyway because of it's signature style.
This competition required 1 pen and ink drawing on Bristol Board from each architect so they could be reproduced on a copper plate rotogravure printing press for maximum quality equal to lithographs. These reproductions are not cheap half-tone reprints, but full density ink drawings. The entries show a beautiful perspective drawing, floor plans, site plan, and details. A few entries had only one drawing.
The book pages contain razor sharp, high resolution black line drawings on natural cream paper. Many drawings are beautiful enough to frame as artwork. These drawings are some of the very best architectural ink drawings ever performed.
The original version of this book is among the rarest of all books on earth. The originals were paper bound and crumbled over the past century due to acid in the paper. There are only 20 copies at all of the libraries worldwide. Our company has been digitizing all of the House Design Competitions of the early period of the 20th century up to the Depression when most of the Golden Age architects ceased production and retired. We have the largest collection of any library and can now produce them for the public who are interested in great architecture. There will be 19 editions from our library collection. Please enjoy some of the best house designs never built.
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This book was issued on October 11, 2015.