After decades of building homes largely for the affluent, following the Great Depression, Wright wanted to come up with a design system that would be accessible for the American middle class. His ...
Florida Southern College plans to build a house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1938 as the first of a series of homes for faculty members. (Florida Southern College image) In 1938, not long after ...
A small, private college campus in Polk County has not only the largest collection of buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright in one place, it also has perhaps the newest building by the American master. In ...
Frank Lloyd Wright, considered the father of organic architecture, who lived from 1867-1959, was the designer behind the style of homes known as Usonian. These small, single-story houses were geared ...
One of only seven of Wright’s Usonian Automatic houses ever built has been identified in Manchester, New Hampshire. Offered for sale for $850,000 in September, the remarkably well-kept two-bedroom, ...
f form really followed function—it did in a material sense by means of this ideal of plasticity, the spiritual concept of form and function as one—why not throw away the implications of post or ...
Wright had long been interested in designing affordable homes on a massive scale for the American middle class. In 1901 he published designs for elegant, inexpensive suburban homes in several issues ...
In 1953, six years before the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened to the public, two of his structures—a pavilion and model Usonian house—were built on the future site of ...
ALTO, MI – Sitting on a high bluff overlooking the Thornapple River, the low-slung cottage at 7510 Valhalla Drive SE has a unique connection to the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright. The studio-style ...
Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Another of the eight Usonian homes Frank Lloyd Wright ...
Editor’s note: While Harold Bubil takes some time off, we’ll reprise some of his popular columns. This column originally ran on Jan. 19, 2019. A small, private college campus in Polk County has not ...