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Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs Houses: Experiments in Modern Living is edited by Wright scholar and noted author Neil Levine and features essay contributions by all three Jacobs children (Susan, Elizabeth, and William), as well as new scholarly essays by Levine and Michael Desmond. Additionally, the book includes new biographies of Katherine and Herb Jacobs, as well as scores of never-before-published photographs and drawings of both Jacobs Houses. It's the most definitive publication on the history and experience of living in these icons of American architecture.

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Neil Levine is the Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor emeritus of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. He has authored The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (1996) and The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright (2016), and coauthored The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum (2009) and Rethinking Frank Lloyd Wright: History, Reception, Preservation (2022). In 2010 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2018 he was awarded the Gold Medal in History of Art by the French Academy of Architecture.

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