Usonian Homes | The Wright Way

Frank Lloyd Wright is famous for a lot of his amazing residential and architectural work.  Today I will be showing you one of his most famous styles: Usonia.  "Usonia" as he called it, is a word he used to refer to his vision of landscapes used in architecture, which also includes plans for cities and architecture from buildings.  The actual word "Usonian" is a term referring to sixty of Wright's middle-income family homes that he designed.  They were usually small, single story, and didn't even have a garage or a way of storage.

The interior of the Rosenbaum House.

These houses were very cheap with very little space.   Also, homes were designed with flat roofs, a word Wright used called "carport",which is a type of overhang for a car, and a natural cooling and solar heating system.  Maybe the earliest use of the word "Usonia" by Wright was in 1927:

"But why this term "America" has become representative as the name of these United States at home and abroad is past recall. Samuel Butler fitted us with a good name. He called us Usonians, and our Nation of combined States, Usonia."

–Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: Selected Writings 1894–1940, p. 100.

This is the outside of the Gordon House by Frank Lloyd Wright.

These houses were very cozy.  (just like all of Wright's residential work)  He used nature with a house in a way that no other architect has.  He changed the way we create architecture forever.  And I'm glad I am doing a biography report on him!

(All information and images courtesy of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.)

References:

1. Usonia
2. Rosenbaum House
3. Carport
4. Gordon House