He designed the mahogany-and-oya-stone-lava Tazaemon Yamamura House, which is significant in that it remains standing while h
He designed the mahogany-and-oya-stone-lava Tazaemon Yamamura House, which is significant in that it remains standing while his other Japanese architectural feats, such as the American Embassy and the Imperial Hotel, have been dismantled. In the U.S., flat-roofed, low-cost "Usonians" like the Zimmerman House replaced his initial style found at Robie House, the "Prairie School". For 10 points, name this Wisconsin-born architect who designed two homes-turned-schools named for a Welsh bard, Taliesin, as well as New York's Guggenheim Museum and Pennsylvania's Fallingwater.
He designed the mahogany-and-oya-stone-lava Tazaemon Yamamura House, which is significant in that it remains standing while his other Japanese architectural feats, such as the American Embassy and the Imperial Hotel, have been dismantled.