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This quintessential Usonian house, commissioned by two Purdue University faculty members, sits on a small hill near the Purdue stadium.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Feb 4, 2017
The residence, built as a retirement home for Harold Price and his wife, is a true desert dwelling, located on a 9-acre plot on the outskirts of Phoenix.
This 3,017-seat auditorium achieved the lowest construction costs on record for a multipurpose theater.
One of the last of Wright’s Usonian homes, the Gordon House is based on the design for a modern home commissioned by Life magazine in 1938.
Located on four acres in the northern suburbs of Cincinnati, this exemplary Usonian Automatic home incorporates 11 different patterns of concrete block and over 400 inset windows.
Repeatedly called out as one of America’s most beautiful campuses, Florida Southern College is the largest single-site collection of Wright architecture in the world.
In 1949 the president of Phoenix’s Southwest Christian Seminary commissioned Wright to design a Classical University.
When S. P. “Pearl” Elam and his wife toured Taliesin in 1948, they told Wright’s chief draftsman, John Howe, that they were interested in building a home.
The Duncan House is one of eleven modest Usonian homes that were prefabricated by a Wisconsin builder, Marshall Erdman, and constructed on lots chosen by the buyers.