Exhibition Catalog - Lawrence Technological University

Notes
1
Gregor S. Affl eck, “Fact Sheet,” 2 July 1967, Frank Lloyd
Wright Foundation Archives (hereafter “FLWFA”).
2
Affl eck wrote an article entitled, “Training Offi cers for the
Naval Auxiliary,” The Wisconsin Engineer 23, no. 6 (March
1919): 202-205.
3
Ethan W. Schmidt, “Alumni Notes,” The Wisconsin Engineer
23, no. 7 (April 1919): 266; Willard A. Kates, “Alumni Notes,” The
Wisconsin Engineer 24, no. 7 (April 1920): 285.
4
Marriage notice in “Alumni Notes,” The Wisconsin Alumni
Magazine 25, no. 1 (November 1923): 15.
5
John Sergeant, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Houses: The
Case for Organic Architecture (New York: Watson-Guptil Publications,
1984), 70.
6
Ibid., 70.
7
Robert C. Twombly, Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture
(New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1987), 205.
8
Ibid., 200.
9
For a listing of the articles, see Robert Lawrence Sweeney,
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Annotated Bibliography (Los Angeles:
Hennessey & Ingalls, 1978).
10
There is an extensive literature on prefabricated housing.
See e.g., Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen, eds., Home
Delivery: Fabricating The Modern Dwelling (New York: The
Museum of Modern Art, 2008); Colin Davies, The Prefabricated
Home (London: Reaktion Books, 2005); Dolores Hayden,
Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
(New York: Vintage Books, 2003).
11
Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography (New York: Duell,
Sloan and Pearce, 1943), 489.
12
Sergeant, Wright’s Usonian Houses, 138.
13
Frank Lloyd Wright, “The Natural House (1954),” in Bruce
Brooks Pfeiffer, ed., Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Vol.
5, 1949-59 (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, and
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 1995), 115.
14
Ibid., 94.
15
Ibid., 120-121. According to historian Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer,
former Taliesin apprentice, “Wright disliked most forms of artifi -
cial air conditioning because he believed them harmful. ‘Just
think what happens to the “old pump” (the heart) when you
come into an icy cold room after being out in the hot sun, or
vice versa.’ The fl ow of natural air was always more desirable,
even if the temperature of that moving air is higher than the
cold blasts from excessive air conditioning.” Yukio Futagawa,
ed, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1924-1936, vol. 5. Text by
Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1985), 99.
16
On Wright’s clients, see Leonard K. Eaton, Two Chicago
Architects and Their Clients: Frank Lloyd Wright and Howard
Van Doren Shaw (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1969).
17
Summary of interview with Mary Ann Affl eck Lutomski,
6 May 1997 (conducted by George M. Goodwin
in Providence, RI), FLWFA.
18
Gregor S. Affl eck to Frank Lloyd Wright, 28 June
1940, A065B02, FLWFA. Affl eck later admitted in correspondence
to a prospective Wright homeowner,
“Mrs. Affl eck, too, did not always want a Wright
house.” Affl eck to Henry R. Hope, 17 June 1943,
A077B05, FLWFA.
19
Gregor S. Affl eck, “Client’s Report,” undated account
enclosed with letter to Progressive Architecture
editor Thomas H. Creighton, 5 August 1946, A090A01,
FLWFA.
20
Ibid.
21
Wright to Affl eck, 1 June 1940, A065A06, FLWFA.
22
Affl eck to Wright, 17 June 1940, A065A09, FLWFA.
23
“House at Bloomfi eld Hills, Michigan,” Progressive
Architecture 27 (October 1946), 67.
24
Affl eck, “Client’s Report,” FLWFA.
25
United States Census, 1940 (www.1940census.net)
(accessed 9 February 2011).
26
On Cranbrook, see Kathryn Eckert, Cranbrook: The
Campus Guide (New York: Princeton Architectural
Press, 2001).
27
Wright and Saarinen maintained a friendly rivalry
for over two decades. The two men fi rst met in 1931
as judges of an international design competition
in Rio de Janeiro. Saarinen invited Wright to speak
at Cranbrook in 1935, and thereafter Wright made
almost yearly trips to see the Saarinens. In his autobiography,
Wright admitted some professional jealousy
over Saarinen’s luck in landing large-scale, well-paying
commissions. “I had always resented Saarinen a
little, regarding him as our most accomplished foreign
eclectic,” Wright wrote. He was “a little jealous too
of [Saarinen’s] easy berth, bestowed by the hand of
American riches, while I had to wait and work and
scrape for mine, the hard way.” Wright, Autobiography,
515.
28
Yukio Futagawa, ed., Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph
1937-1941, vol. 6. Text by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer.
(Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1986), 250.
29
Affl eck to Wright, 28 June 1940, A065B02, FLWFA.
30
Frank Lloyd Wright, “Architecture and Modern Life”
(1937), in Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, ed., Frank Lloyd Wright
Collected Writings, Vol. 3, 1931-1939 (New York: Rizzoli
International Publications, and The Frank Lloyd Wright
Foundation, 1995), 239-240.
31
Affl eck to Wright, 28 June 1940, A065B02, FLWFA.
32
Interior photographs from the 1940s show a couch
in the space at the base of the wall to the bedroom
26