Author: Paul Venable Turner

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780804739412

This book shows that although professional architects were involved in the project, the architect was actually Lou Henry Hoover herself, who conceived the design of the house and worked out its details, using her architects largely for technical matters and to produce the drawings and supervise construction. As for the design, the book argues that it was inspired mainly by the Native American Pueblo architecture of New Mexico and Arizona.