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Figure 8-19 Ground plan for the Lloyd Lewis House (1939) in Libertyville, Illinois, delineates planting beds that appear to flow from under the house. (© 2002 by The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona.)
Leigh Stevens’ “Auldbrass Plantation”— Yemassee, South Carolina (1939) The design approach that Wright undertook for the complex of structures to be built upon the 4000-acre site of the former “Oldbrass” antebellum rice plantation—once the largest plantation in South Carolina—
represents a complete about-face from his design approach for the Lewis House.479 Here in this southern “low-country,” equidistant from Charleston and Savannah, where the indigenous architecture raises the primary living spaces off the ground to access cooling breezes and cope with the climatic conditions of heat and humidity, Wright chose to place all structures at
Figure 8-20 Perspective sketch shows upward and outward expanse of Lewis House indoor-outdoor living spaces. (© 2002 by The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona.)