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Welcome Frank Lloyd Wright at the Drawing Table Young Architect New Generation Cooper House Promising Work |
In the Cooper House, a rectangular-shaped veranda with semi-circular steps projects forward from the pentagon-shaped library. On the opposite side of the great hall an upper-level pentagon-shaped sitting room with large half-octagon-shaped windows facing in opposite directions and a half-octagon-shaped fireplace angles off at 135 degrees. A rectangular-shaped bedroom containing a half-octagon-shaped fireplace extends from the sitting room at a 135-degree angle exposed to the outside through an octagon-shaped casement window.
Here was an intelligent, young man barely twenty years of age
in his very first rendering showing promise as a talented architect, who took fundamental shapes and angles of
Froebel's Kindergarten Gifts and Occupations and molded them into a highly integrated, artistic expression of
natural beauty. Young Architect
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