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Designed & Built: 1939-40Location: 9 Ford Rd, ChristchurchBuilt for Sir Otto Frankel (d.1998) & Margaret Anderson (d.1997). Otto Frankel assisted Plischke to emigrate from Austria to New Zealand, arranging employment for him at the Dept of Housing Construction.
Construction Details: Timber framing, roughsawn rimu weatherboard cladding Current status: Heavily modified A picture of the house today can be seen here | |
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Design Features:L-shaped floor plan, flat roof oriented to garden; multi-purpose space; built-in furniture; Linda Tyler draws extended comparison with Wright’s first Usonian house for Herbert Jacobs (designed 1936, published 1938); also with Paul Pascoe’s Harris House. Plischke himself denied any prior knowledge of the Jacobs house. |
| Above: The Jacobs House, 1936 |
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