THE NATURAL HOUSE By Frank Lloyd Wright. Beautiful 1954 Horizon Press First Edition in Dust Jacket. 224 pages and 116 black and white photographs, illustrations, diagrams, floorplans and elevations. Frank Lloyd Wright: THE NATURAL HOUSE. New York: Horizon Press, 1954. First edition [with "/54" in the initial box on the front cover]. Oatmeal cloth decorated in Cherokee red and black. Endpapers printed in red. 116 black and white photographs, illustrations, diagrams, floorplans and elevations. Front pastedown lightly offset from the red block on the front free endpaper. Jacket lightly rubbed with a couple of faint scratches over authors portrait on rear panel, otherwise a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket. 8.25 x 10.25 hardcover book with 224 pages and 116 black and white photographs, illustrations, diagrams, floorplans and elevations. For more than a half century Frank Lloyd Wright has been the prophet of a new idea in architecture. It is called organic architecture. It has spread throughout the world. This is Frank Lloyd Wrights treatise on designing the organic house of the future, with particular attention paid to his Usonian house projects and descriptions of a simplified version the Usonian Automaticthat the owners themselves can build with great economy and beauty. The Usonian house, Wright proclaims, aims to be a natural performance, one that is integral to site, to environment, to the life of the inhabitants, integral with the nature of the materials. “In our country the chief obstacle to any real solution of the moderate-cost house-problem is the fact that our people do not really know how to live, imagining their idiosyncrasies to be their “tastes, their prejudices to be their predilections and their ignorance to be virtue where any beauty of living is concerned. – Frank Lloyd Wright. From the book: This book not only brings together for the first time Mr. Wrights earlier writings onthehouse of moderate cost; it also contains a great deal of new material, never before published, which he has just written specifically to answer such important practical questions as: How can it be done with a limited budget? What kind of land and where/ What materials to use? What is the best kind of roof? Must be a pattern for more simple and, at the same time, more gracious living: new but suitable to living conditions as they might so well be in the country we live in today. This needed house of moderate cost must sometime face reality. The houses built by the million. Do no such thing. To me such houses are “escapist” houses, putting on some style or other, really having none. A style is not. There is all the difference when we work with style and not for a style. For an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. Please contact me for details. The item “1954 Frank Lloyd Wright THE NATURAL HOUSE Horizon Press USONIAN Architecture 1st” is in sale since Wednesday, May 1, 2019. This item is in the category “Books\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “modernism101″ and is located in Shreveport, Louisiana. This item can be shipped worldwide.
