[Nowhereman1280]

The Turkel House is interesting because it has many influences and could fall under a number of categories. At first glance it looks Brutalist, but it also clearly carries over major elements of Wrights Usonian and Prairie design schools. Many people don't give Wright the credit he deserves for being one of the major influences of modernism, especially in the US, but much of his later works show that even his earliest designs used many of what would become Modernism's tenants.

In my personal opinion, I would count Turkel house as a definite precursor to Brutalism and perhaps one of the earliest examples. I would do this because it clearly has the massing and even uses the square vaulted concrete ceilings that would become so popular in Brutalist buildings. Usionian was really just Frank Lloyd Wrights own homegrown version of Modernism anyhow, so its only fitting that his more "Aztec looking" Usonian homes would closely resemble Brutalism.