The Frank House has been described as a unique synthesis between the modernism of the interwar years and the sumptuous ethos of Breuer's so-called New Humanism.Frampton, Kenneth, ed. “Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer: Alan I W Frank House, 1939.” American Masterworks: houses of the 20th and 21st centuries. New York: Rizzoli International, 1995 As Bergdoll writes in Hauser, "Unlike the Meisterhäuser at Dessau, where a machined aesthetic of stucco rendered walls and floating boxes defined a rigorous geometric approach to composition, the Frank House uses gently swelling curves set in facades of long horizontal lines, exterior walls of warm pink-sand colored Kasota stone over a steel framework, all set upon a rugged base of local field stone, echoed in the garden’s terrace walls."
