This book represents decades of research by Caitlin Lempres Brostrom, AIA and Professor Richard C. Peters, FAIA. With a preface by Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, “A Frame for Living” comprises archival and new photography as well as original drawings and narrative history for 33 residential projects.

Accompanying the indepth study of these residential projects is a careful narrative analysis of the critical importance of Wurster’s work and theories on education and architecture.

“The work at hand, this book, which so richly reveals many fine houses by Wurster, brings us back (or may we hope, forward?) to a milieu that valued accomplished modesty, spare spaces and graceful movement, a period when to build directly and easily with materials close to hand was considered a virtue; one that would allow ingenuity to be invested in building arrangements intended to embellish ways of living and being in a particular way.” 

-Professor Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, preface.