The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

The Usonian house

Wright’s house for a family of modest means (1936 onward): one storey on a heated slab, an L round a garden, a brick hearth core, a glass wall to the garden, flat roofs with deep eaves and a carport.

The Usonian house Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Organic architecture

The rules it illustrates

The Usonian house. Build the family house on one level on a heated concrete slab, on a planning grid, round a brick core of hearth and kitchen; wall it in wood towards the street and in glass towards the garden; roof it flat with deep eaves, and shelter the car in a carport instead of a garage.