Your chance to build a version of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's seminal Usonian home designs has now become available thanks to a new collaboration between the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Seattle-based home construction company Lindal Cedar Homes.
Replica designs inspired by the Bachman-Wilson home, Gordon House, and Seth Peterson cottage count among the nine available for purchase. Lindal says each has been "updated for modern living," offering clients customization on top of the experience of being "liberated" (as Wright liked to imagine) by their unique combination of openness, light, and an organic relationship to nature.
The foundation’s CEO, Stuart Graff, commented, "The Lindal Imagine series reflects a modern embodiment of Frank Lloyd Wright’s principles; sensitive to the attributes of Usonian design while meeting the demands of contemporary living."
"The Lindal Imagine Series is not a reproduction of the original designs. Because the Usonian houses were so flexible in their logic, it gives us the opportunity to explore the same concepts of space, site relationship and how to organize the materials so that they perform efficiently," designer Aris Georges added in context.
Users will have to use the Lindal building system in order to realize their construction. The School of Architecture at Taliesin is also a partner in the series.
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These designs are handsome and appear to be well set-up to meet the needs of contemporary family life, but they bear only a loose connection to Wright's Usonian designs. Their proportions, details and structural system are different, although their floor plans are generally reminiscent of some of Wright's designs.
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