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More than 100 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions have special place names (e.g. "Hollyhock House" or "Fallingwater"). These titles were often bestowed by Wright on his designs but some were applied by clients. Only Wright projects with nicknames appear in this search.

Alternative placename: "Usonian"

House Design, "The Usonian Automatic" [No location] (1949)

Note: The following information concerning this project represents original research and analysis by John Geiger, and is based in his long and detailed study of the Frank Lloyd Wright literature as well as personal contacts with members of the Taliesin Fellowship and architectural historians. In addition, he added his own categories of building type and compositional form, as well as other points of consideration that he deemed important to understanding of the design.

Name of client: Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Usonian.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Single Family.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Concrete block, usonian automatic.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 15.

Drawing Number and Description

5612.001     Floor plan, elevation and details by Wright
5612.002     Floor plan and elevation. conceptual sketch bu Wright
5612.021     Floor plan and elevations, conceptual sketch by Wright
5612.037     Floor plan of main level and elevation
5612.041     Perspective from street
5612.077     Usonina Automatic concrete block detail drawing
5612.092     Usonian automatic details, Block Schedule
5612.093     Wall section showing fooring, wall and roof
5612.094     Structural wall and foundation section
5612.095     Usonian automatic details
5612.096     Usonina automatic details, mezzanine and pergola roof details
5612.097     Usonina automatic details, second floor and basement deails
5612.098     Usonian sutpmatic details, reflected ceiling plan and wall finish
5612.099     Usonian automatic details; reflected ceiling plan outside corner
5612.114     Detail of usonian block construction system

Individuals recorded as contributing to project:

Note: Not everyone who contributed to a project may be named; only those whose participation has been confirmed from a source appear above. Occasionally names presented as contributors to a project may seem chronologically anomalous. This usually occurs when an individual prepared drawings for publicity, exhibition, or publication long after the original date of a commission.

Howe, John

Plan type: Ladies Home Journal 1907.

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of floor plans found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects to categorize types of roof structure. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [PLANTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Roof type: Flat.

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of roof structure found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [ROOFTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Notes And References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution None recorded.