Kentuck Knob A Perforated Board | Clerestory| AlaModerna Color:Cherry Stain The Emil Bach House is

The Emil Bach House is one of the homes Wright designed after his 1911 return from Europe

In the early 1920s Frank Lloyd Wright gave new life to concrete blocks with a new building system he called “textile block construction

Frank Lloyd Wright designed his Prairie style masterpiece

These designs harken back to the lacey ornamentation of Wright’s mentor

and deep cantilevered eaves

Kentuck Knob A Perforated Board | Clerestory| AlaModerna Color:Cherry Stain The Emil Bach House isDesigned on a hexagonal module, Kentuck Knob is a small, one story Usonian house located in the Laurel Highlands of western Pennsylvania. Usonian is a term that Frank Lloyd Wright coined to describe something that was made for the people of the United States. He created this style of affordable home for the middle class in the era of the Great Depression. Both dramatic and serene, the house, situated just below the crest of the hill, appears almost