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“The humility in Mori’s words is evident in her design for the visitors center, a lean, clean, Modernist meditation on Wright’s legacy.

The pavilion, a jewel in itself, will be a low-slung glass rectangle, surmounted by a steel roof with a broad horizontal roof resembling an inverted version of the hipped roofs typical of Wright’s Prairie Style.

It will stand near the west side of the Martin House, positioned with its narrow end facing Jewett Avenue, all the better to make it appear smaller than the Wright building.

Finished in 1907 at 125 Jewett Parkway, the Martin House is the dominant part of a magnificent domestic ensemble consisting of a main house, a guest house, a carriage house, pergola and gardens…” (go to article)