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1940 · Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States

Alan I W Frank House image

House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Alan I W Frank House

Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States · Exact work coordinates

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Hero image

House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Comparison

Field	Alan I W Frank House 1940 · Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States	Gunnar Birkerts 1950-2017 · Detroit, Michigan, United States
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1940	1950-2017
Place	Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States	Detroit, Michigan, United States
Place context	Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States	Representative site: Detroit, Detroit, United States
Climate	Climate unavailable	Climate unavailable · via 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative
Focus	Housing	5 works in corpus
Architects	Marcel Breuer	Gunnar Birkerts
Linked context	Bureaus Marcel Breuer Associates	Notable works 1300 Lafayette East Cooperative Domino's Farms National Library of Latvia Domino's
Typologies	housing house	housing performance venue landscape education campus building house tower library
Materials	Not recorded yet.	glass steel
Carbon signals	housing and house gives us a typology starting point even though the work does not have a recorded material palette yet. No dominant drivers yet.	Steel and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Steel Glass
Lower-carbon levers	No levers surfaced yet.	Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons. Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
Accessibility	Access not recorded	3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	No linked books yet.	No linked books yet.