The Natural House - Frank Lloyd Wright and 15 similar items

The book is in acceptable condition. The back cover has come loose and the front cover i sonly partially attached. All pages are intact but do shows signs of yellowing. When synthetics were king and plastic was a new "miracle” material, Frank Lloyd Wright bucked the trend and wrote The Natural House. Published in 1954, the book was full of ideas the architect had been practicing for decadesâ”starting, in many ways, with the 1934 Willey House. Wright laid out his theory of "organic architecture,” where "the nature of material and method and purpose are all in unison.” He urged architects to respect materials for their intrinsic nature and design accordingly. Organic architecture, Wright posited, "is an architecture upon which true American society will eventually be based if we survive at all...If we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral natureâ”the psycheâ”of our democratic society. Integrity would become more naturalâliving within a house wherein everything is genuine and harmonious, a new sense of freedom gives one a new sense of life.” The Usonian houseâ”for which the Willey House became a sort of prototypeâ”offered an equally utopian vision: affordable shelter that embodied these aims. "Integral to its site; integral to its environment; integral to the life of the inhabitants...Into this new integrity, once there, those who live in it will take root and grow,” he wrote. Please ask any questions before buying, all sales are final.