‘The house of moderate cost is not only America’s major architectural problem but the problem most difficult for her major architects’ he said and, beginning as a young architect in the 1890s in the Chicago area, proceeded to make it his life’s work to design the small house of character. As with many modern architectural ideas that we now take for granted, Wright was there first. This book presents a wealth of ideas for how to build or renovate a house to make it feel far more spacious than would seem possible.