Famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed iconic buildings like the Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania and the Guggenheim Museum in New York -- and he also designed a dog house for a 12-year-old boy who sent him a letter.
designed iconic buildings like the Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania and the Guggenheim Museum in New York -- and he also designed a dog house for a 12-year-old boy who sent him a letter.
"I would appreciate it if you would design me a dog house, which would be easy to build, but would go with our house," wrote Berger in the letter."The reason I would like this dog house is for the winters mainly."He offered Eddie's age,"four years old or in dog life 28 years," and size,"two and a half feet high and three feet long.""A house for Eddie is an opportunity," wrote Wright in his reply, dated June 28, 1956.
Architecture fans can see the dog house for themselves at the Marin County Civic Center, where it was put on permanent display on May 26,The dog house at the Marin County Civic Center.The dog house on display, however, isn't the actual dog house used by Eddie. Berger's father, Robert, and brother, Eric, built the dog house in 1963 when Berger joined the Army, six years after receiving the plans from Wright.
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