ArchitectureWeek Notes No. 358

Fri Nov 16 09:55:30 PST 2007

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L-HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
    by William G. Gabler
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	In the 19th century, the great majority of the houses of
	western Minnesota were cheap, plain, awkward, and
	unlovely. Harmony and unity emerged from the mundane
	clutter, however, in the form of the classic L-house,
	which became representative of much of the farming way
	of life in the Midwest.

	When the prairie families earned enough money to move
	out of their cabins and sod houses, they often built
	modest rectangular-shaped, one-and-a-half-story houses
	with simple gable roofs. These structures became
	L-houses when the families earned enough to add on the
	kitchen L and porch of a complete L-house.

	The easiest way to expand was to extend the original
	house sideways by laying more joists parallel to the
	original ones. Since the joist length was limited to
	about 16 feet (4.9 meters), one ended up with a house 16
	feet wide and whatever length one wanted, but a long
	narrow house was not very desirable. Those houses were
	hard to heat evenly, requiring a stove at each end.

	The next least complicated means of expansion was the
	L-house approach, which added a second 16-foot-wide
	section onto the side of the original house at right
	angles so the new floor plan resembled an L, where the
	foot of the L was the living room and the stem of the L
	was the kitchen. Many L-houses were designed so the
	living room segment extended beyond the walls of the
	kitchen segment, which made the house plan resemble an
	asymmetrical T rather than an L.
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Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
    by Michael J. Crosbie
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	Overland Park, Kansas, is not quite the center of the
	United States, but you can just about see it from there.
	Less than ten miles south of Kansas City, Overland Park
	is a leafy college town, 167,000 strong, the state's
	second largest settlement after its close-by neighbor to
	the north.  
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People and Places Page 2007.1114
    by Nancy Novitski
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	Ankrom Moisan Associates Architects in Portland, Oregon --
	Lord, Aeck & Sargent in Douglas, Georgia -- Michael Graves
	& Associates in Detroit, Michigan -- Halcrow Yolles in
	Chicago, Illinois -- Roldan + Berengue, arqts. in
	Barcelona, Spain -- SmithGroup and Stantec Architecture
	(Chong Partners) in Antioch, California -- Baker Barrios
	Architects, Inc. in Orlando, Florida -- CO Architects in
	Escondido, California -- HOK Sport in London, England,
	United Kingdom -- Perkings Eastman, Basler Mosa Design
	Group, and The Liebman Melting Partnership in New York,
	New York -- Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects in
	Assen, Netherlands -- HOK in Chicago, Illinois...
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