Seattle-based manufacturer Lindal Cedar Homes has partnered with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to create a series of purchasable house designs informed by the American architect's Usonian philosophy.
The floor plans of nine houses are available to purchase in The Lindal Imagine Series, including designs based on Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs 1 house in Wisconsin.
Lindal Cedar Homes has created a series of house designs based upon Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian principles. Top photo of Crystal Springs by John Muggenborg for Lindal Cedar Homes
Usonia, a derivate term for the "United States of America" coined by Wright, refers to a set of principles the architect used to create more than 100 houses around the US starting in the 1930s.
These principles emphasised integration with nature, the use of natural materials, open floor plans, affordability and energy efficiency. The designs include interpretations of a series of houses designed by Wright starting in the 1930s
They were also part of Wright's overarching "vision" for establishing an architectural language across the US.
"Usonia was the term Frank Lloyd Wright coined to describe his vision for a new affordable architecture that freed itself from European conventions and responded to the American landscape," said Lindal Cedar Homes.
The Usonia design principles were guided by affordability and efficiency
"Wright's Usonian houses related directly to the earth, unimpeded by a foundation, fr...