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Wright's house anticipated the contemporary search for an affordable, compact home design that fits today's lifestyle of working parents and kitchen entertaining. Wright claimed to have designed more than a hundred of these houses, to which he applied Samuel Butler's term Usonian (derived from the initials U.S.). Their architecture was intended to embody the spirit of democracy as Wright saw it, a spirit of close-to-nature individualism and hearth-centered family life. The exterior of the two-bedroom house shows mostly an unassuming brick wall. It has no attic, porch or basement...
...Usonian Architect...
...Frank Lloyd Wright has suggested the handle of "Usonian." I think that's a decided improvement if a new adjective is to be sought, as I believe it should be. "Misonian" is likely to be confused with "Minnesotan" or "Smithsonian." ... I advance "Usamian" from United States of America, pronounced with a short...
...wish you might give us a picture and a fuller description of Mr. Herbert Jacobs' "one-story, six-room, $5,500 house" (designed by Mr. Wright) in Madison, Wis. It is what you call Exhibit A in Mr. Wright's scheme of things Usonian...
...undoubtedly the house's builder. Gracious, mischievous and immaculate at 68, Frank Lloyd Wright has little of the patriarch about him except his fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there can be little doubt that Frank Lloyd Wright is their worthy peer...