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Although they embody your requirements they go by the two story house as an unnecessary tax upon comfort and spread you out comfortably on your own piece of ground to live your own life on the level. Upstairs for upstairs. The ground for nobler humans…”  \nFrank Lloyd Wright (1935)  \nRE: letter to Robert Lusk of South Dakota. Lusk – a newspaper editor, was seeking a FLW house on a budget of $5, 500 . At the time, FLW was working on an economical house design for the “everyman” for his Broadacre City scheme, so he accepted the challenge. It would be built on a concrete slab with only a small basement for utilities and storage, an open “carport” rather then an enclosed garage and the kitchen was given a central place in the design. It would be the first in a series of modular designs FLW termed “Usonians.” Filled with standardized details, the house had, inadvertently, laid the groundwork for the future of American mass housing. However, when the bids came in at $10K – nearly double their budget, the client backed out. Another client for a similar house – the Hoults, had a similar experience. But FLW would take the lessons learned from both and apply them in due time. 4  \nAbove & Left: caption:“The Lusk House Project, Huron, South Dakota, 1935-36 . The plan is a developed L form, with an extended bedroom wing” 5  \nAbove & Left: the Hoult House 6  \nJacobs I  \n“…But the best piece of evidence that Wright will, when really necessary, pay careful heed to the means of his client is the one-story, six-room, $5, 500 house which he finished last month for Herbert Jacobs, a newspaperman in Madison, Wis. Usonia is Frank Lloyd Wright’s name for the U.S.A. He found it in Samuel Butler and, eclectic for once, appropriated it because he liked it. It is one of the tricks of speech and thought by which Wright links a curiously oldfashioned Americanism to an Americanism which is still ahead of his time. The Jacobs house he calls a Usonian house and it is his exhibit Ain a demonstration of what Usonia might be. It ‘may help to indicate,’ he says, ‘how stifling the little colonial hot-boxes, whether hallowed by government or not, really are where family life is concerned…” 8 TIME magazine, January 17th 1938 (left)  \n“Would you really be satisfied with a five-thousand dollar house? What most people really want is a ten-thousand dollar house for five-thousand dollars…A car is not a horse, and it doesn’t need a barn…”  \nFrank Lloyd Wright  \nRE: in the summer of 1936 , Herbert Jacobs - a newspaper editor from Madison, Wis., visited Taliesin with his wife and asked FLW to build thema “descent” house for $5K. Fresh from his experience with the Lusk’s and Hoult’s, he laid down the conditions;  \n• No bathroom tile;  \n• No expensive interior cabinetry;  \n• Radiant heated floors would be used;  \n• No garage-a “carport” would be provided;  \n• The bathroom and kitchen would share a plumbing chase;  \n• Rough lumber would be used to frame and finish the interior walls  \nFLW signed an agreement to build the house – including his fee – for a guaranteed price of $5, 500 , on November 15th 1936 .","cbCaigFxrMfyvaFD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigFxrMfyvaFD","pdf",6262120,81,"English","# The House America Needs\n## The Lusk House Project\n## Jacobs I\n# A Solar Hemicycle\n# An Organic House","[{\"question\":\"What historical challenge shaped the Jacobs II passive solar house design?\",\"answer\":\"The deck explains that Wright accepted budget-driven constraints from clients (including the Lusk and Jacobs efforts). 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