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Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright's Design for America is Alvin Rosenbaum's personal account of regional planning between 1920 and 1950 and how Frank Lloyd Wright's work during that period has contributed to the way we live now. The fascinating parallel stories of three men who helped shape the era - Wright, Henry Ford, and Franklin D. Roosevelt - are interwoven with details about other lives and historic events to demonstrate how Wright's ideas have given shape to modern America. The author's boyhood home in Alabama, one of Wright's Usonian houses, is the point of departure for the narrative, which…
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 1993Preservation Press · 216 pages · 9780471144304
- Other · English · 1993Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation · 215 pages · 9780891332015
Usonian housesCriticism and interpretationWright, frank lloyd, 1869-1959