Froebel's Kiondedrgarten

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COOPER HOUSE (1887-1890)
savefroebel.com Welcome Frank Lloyd Wright at the Drawing Table Young Architect New Generation Cooper House Promising Work	The drawing that Frank Lloyd Wright prepared for Adler and Sullivan for employment demonstrated his astute ability to design beautiful buildings. Such evidence lies within the geometric form presented through the sophisticated integration of squares, circles, pentagons and octagons in a study plan and elevation drawing for what he later called a Dream house (1887). Eventually, the study-plan drawing and elevation rendering were turned into a lovely residence for the Henry N. Cooper House (1890), although the home was never built. Nevertheless, these drawings indicate distinctive Froebel-like tendencies in design and layout through the integration of circle, square, pentagon and octagon-shaped rooms, fireplaces and windows. The drawings show the various rooms of the house as a highly integrated system of geometrical shapes (enclosed spaces) tied together through angles shared by their individual parts. The drawings in elevation and floor plan reveal characteristic design and layout elements with a circular dining room and semi-circular fireplaces enclosed within an octagon-shaped building, indicative of Froebel's Kindergarten Gifts and Occupations. A large irregular octagon-shaped central hall occupies the middle section of the house with a semi-circular entrance in the front and a half-octagon-shaped fireplace in the rear. An attached pentagon-shaped music room and library juke out from the central hallway at a 135-degree angle with the shortest side of the pentagon linked to the dining room by a square-shaped atrium of the same dimension. Through a square-shaped hallway of the same size, the dining room attaches to a kitchen and service wing with servant quarters above and a store room below. Young Architect New Generation Cooper House Promising Work Section Directory Introduction Young Architect Child Play Gifts Occupation Material Unity
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Founder, Author and Researcher

COOPER HOUSE (1887-1890)

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Welcome

Frank Lloyd Wright at the Drawing Table

Young Architect

New Generation

Cooper House

Promising Work

The drawing that Frank Lloyd Wright prepared for Adler and Sullivan for employment demonstrated his astute ability to design beautiful buildings. Such evidence lies within the geometric form presented through the sophisticated integration of squares, circles, pentagons and octagons in a study plan and elevation drawing for what he later called a Dream house (1887). Eventually, the study-plan drawing and elevation rendering were turned into a lovely residence for the Henry N. Cooper House (1890), although the home was never built.

Cooper House Plan Nevertheless, these drawings indicate distinctive Froebel-like tendencies in design and layout through the integration of circle, square, pentagon and octagon-shaped rooms, fireplaces and windows. The drawings show the various rooms of the house as a highly integrated system of geometrical shapes (enclosed spaces) tied together through angles shared by their individual parts.

The drawings in elevation and floor plan reveal characteristic design and layout elements with a circular dining room and semi-circular fireplaces enclosed within an octagon-shaped building, indicative of Froebel's Kindergarten Gifts and Occupations. A large irregular octagon-shaped central hall occupies the middle section of the house with a semi-circular entrance in the front and a half-octagon-shaped fireplace in the rear.

An attached pentagon-shaped music room and library juke out from the central hallway at a 135-degree angle with the shortest side of the pentagon linked to the dining room by a square-shaped atrium of the same dimension. Through a square-shaped hallway of the same size, the dining room attaches to a kitchen and service wing with servant quarters above and a store room below.

Young Architect
New Generation Cooper House Promising Work

Section Directory
Introduction Young Architect Child Play Gifts Occupation Material Unity