Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright's Design for America
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The fascinating parallel narratives of three men who influenced the era between 1920 and 1950--Wright, Henry Ford and Franklin D. Roosevelt--are interwoven with provocative details about other lives, historic events and personal insights to demonstrate how Wright's ideas have shaped modern America. Describes how the architect's vision failed and succeeded and how Usonia was realized in expected and unexpected ways.
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The fascinating parallel narratives of three men who influenced the era between 1920 and 1950--Wright, Henry Ford and Franklin D. Roosevelt--are interwoven with provocative details about other lives, historic events and personal insights to demonstrate how Wright's ideas have shaped modern America. Describes how the architect's vision failed and succeeded and how Usonia was realized in expected and unexpected ways.
Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright's Design for America,Alvin Rosenbaum,Preservation Press,0471144304,1867-1959,Architecture,Criticism and interpretation,Design & Drafting,Domestic,Individual Architect,Individual Architects Of The 20th Century,United States,Usonian houses,Wright, Frank Lloyd,,History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -,Individual architects,Individual artists
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