Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses (Wright at a Glance Series) @ richardeward.com

Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses (Wright at a Glance Series)
by Carla Lind
from Pomegranate Communications

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• A little pricey, not enough content, but a nice 'little' gift.
  This is a nice 'little' gift to give to a Wright fan, but it is not comprehensive enough to tell you what the whole Usonian thing was all about.
  It would have gotten more stars if the price was a couple of dollars less.

• Tiny, almost useless book
  This is a tiny hard cover book. "At a glance" is an over statement. More like a drive-by book. The pictures can be found elsewhere (larger and more complete) and the historical info is nil (and also found elsewhere.) Had I know this I would have not wasted my $10.00 on this.

• The Wright house for the rest of us!
  This is a beautiful short introduction to the late and often smaller houses built by Wright after 1935, appropriately published in a purse-size book (part of a series). While less well known than his Prairie houses, these Usonians are the houses that YOU and I could afford! (Well...the smallest gem, Goetsch--built for $7,137.23--just sold for c.$225,000.) You will see here the beginning of many cliches of "modern houses:" single storys, open plans, lots of glass, dinettes, carports, etc. Only, these look... more info

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