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Elecri-Living House, Front, 1956
Electri-Living House
Designed by R. Duane Conner
OKC
1956
Here's a bit of the article (in Living For Young Homemakers magazine) that accompanies the images of this beautiful home:
"The architectural vocabulary of this house is inventiveness. Every element has been investigated to determine its function and how that function could be improved upon or heightened for better value in cost, comfort, convenience, and performance.... Dominating the immediate impression, the imposing roof structure has been engineered as a cantilevered shelter that hovers over the interior areas to form a protective canopy for the continuous glass strip above the nonbearing masonry walls. No wonder this house cannot be categorized by any of the familiar terms or times: it is, by concept, not only an articulate expression of mid-twentieth-century shelter but an encouraging step towards the future. Witness to the fact: some ten thousand visitors on the opening day, who were concerned neither with the intricacies of engineering, the mystery of light nor the arts of architecture, said simply -- by how expressively -- "this is a good house."
Elecri-Living House, Front, 1956
Electri-Living House
Designed by R. Duane Conner
OKC
1956
Here's a bit of the article (in Living For Young Homemakers magazine) that accompanies the images of this beautiful home:
"The architectural vocabulary of this house is inventiveness. Every element has been investigated to determine its function and how that function could be improved upon or heightened for better value in cost, comfort, convenience, and performance.... Dominating the immediate impression, the imposing roof structure has been engineered as a cantilevered shelter that hovers over the interior areas to form a protective canopy for the continuous glass strip above the nonbearing masonry walls. No wonder this house cannot be categorized by any of the familiar terms or times: it is, by concept, not only an articulate expression of mid-twentieth-century shelter but an encouraging step towards the future. Witness to the fact: some ten thousand visitors on the opening day, who were concerned neither with the intricacies of engineering, the mystery of light nor the arts of architecture, said simply -- by how expressively -- "this is a good house."