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Drawings Of A House: Reading Multiple Authorships In Architecture, John Knuteson
Drawings Of A House: Reading Multiple Authorships In Architecture, John Knuteson
Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design Theses & Dissertations
This thesis reconsiders the notion of authorship in architecture by examining the drawings, characters and stories surrounding the W.A. Glasner House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1906 and located in the Chicago suburb of Glencoe, Illinois. The house stands out in Wright’s body of work as his first project to assimilate the dominant horizontality of the prairie style with complex topography, and for its unusual residential program. Perhaps more importantly, the process by which the Glasner House was designed, drawn and modified reveals a critical way of viewing authorship in architecture by introducing the contributions of multiple different characters. …