Usonia

Usonia is a term coined by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in terms of his vision for the landscape of the United States, whose urban planning and architecture.

Use

Usonia was Wright's personal synonym for America. He also called his visionary America. It consists of a new urban form devised by him: Broadacre City ( size city). Only the people here might enjoy " true individuality " ( and not " rugged individuality " = egoism ) in a true holistic democracy. Characteristic of this vision are the values ​​of the Declaration of Independence. Since all potential leaders (politicians, philosophers, artists ... ) have failed, Usonien is led by an architect. The government takes only true administrative tasks. Usonia is radically federal, turned against each centralizing concentration of power.

The true center ( the only allowed centralization ) in the Usonian democracy, the individual is truly in his Usonian family home.

The term Usonian also refers to about 50 middle-class houses that made Frank Lloyd Wright building from the year 1936 together with the company Jacobs House.

These houses were usually small, one-story houses without garages or large storage room that made Wright build against the backdrop of the world economic crisis. In this context, he also coined the word carport.

The Usonian houses had an L-shape that surrounded a garden terrace on two sides. With regard to the environment they had overhanging roofs for solar heating and natural cooling.

The 1938-1940 for Theodore Baird, an English professor of Amherst College, Theodore Baird Residence Built in Amherst (Massachusetts), is distinguished externally by a brick facade and flat roof; inside the heating system is noteworthy transported in the hot water pipes, the heat generated by a concrete floor.

Etymology

The word Usonia is closely related to the Esperanto word for the United States, Usono, which in turn derives from the abbreviation USA.

Usonian houses

• Arthur Pieper residence, Paradise Valley, Arizona
• Jacobs House, Madison, Wisconsin
• Rosenbaum House, Florence, Alabama
• Pope- Leighey House, Alexandria, Virginia
• Weltzheimer / Johnson House, Oberlin, Ohio
• Dorothy H. Turkel House, Detroit, Michigan
• I. N. ​​Hagan House, Kentuck Knob, Pennsylvania
• Alsop House and Lamberson House, Oskaloosa, Iowa
• Frieda and Henry J. Neils House, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Benjamin Adam House, Phoenix, Arizona

I. N. ​​Hagan House

Frieda and Henry J. Neils House

Thomas Keys House

Pope- Leighey House

Sturges House