The Potential House

a+u: Architecture and Urbanism 1989 September Special Edition - The Potential House: Three Centuries of American Dwelling by Henry Plummer records the third American architecture observation tour in 1988, sponsored by the Otis Elevator Cultural Committee. This Committee's architecture tours have focused on vital issues in American architecture such as American housing and American Art Deco. Twenty-five house are featured in this issue of a+u, with color photographs for all and numerous section, site, and floor plans for many. The houses are: Parson Capen House in Topsfield, Massachusetts; Thomas Jefferson's Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia; a Shaker Dwelling in Hancock, Massachusetts; Gilbert Joseph Pilie's Oak Alley in St. James Parish, Louisiana; San Francisco in Garyville, Louisiana; Bird's Nest Cottage, the Watts-Sherman House, and Kingscote in Newport, Rhode Island; Greene & Greene's Gamble House in Pasadena, California; Henry Mercer's Fonthill in Doylestown, Pennsylvania; Frank Lloyd Wright's Storer House in Hollywood, California, Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Price House in Phoenix, Arizona; Wharton Esherick's House and Studio in Paoli, Pennsylvania; Rudolph Schindler's Buck House in Los Angeles, California; Bruce Goff's Ford House in Aurora, Illinois; Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; Maurice Smith's Blackman House in Groton, Massachusetts; Joseph Esherick's Bermak House in Oakland, California; Moore-Lyndon-Turnbull-Whitaker's Sea Beach Condominium in Sonoma County, California; Moore-Turnbull's Hines House in Sonoma County, California; William Turnbull's Zimmerman House in Fairfax County, Virginia; E. Fay Jones's Edmondson House in Forrest City, Arkansas; Antoine Predock's Fuller House in Scottsdale, Arizona; and Morphosis's Crawford House in Montecito, California and Weis House in Hollywood, California.