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Do It Yourself: From Individual Sovereignty to Civic Design
Bergdoll, Barry
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Gray, Jennifer
2017
Unpacking the Archives: Frank Lloyd Wright at 150
With the Usonian Automatic construction system, Frank Lloyd Wright provided citizens of Usonia—Wright’s preferred term for a culturally advanced North America—with the means of “doing it themselves,” of building their own homes and communities. Though designing ways to provide moderate-cost housing on a large scale had preoccupied Wright for years—and resulted in his invention of numerous construction systems—the Usonian Automatic would be different: almost open source in its sensibility, it was explicitly intended to allow anyone to build their own buildings, of their own earth, on their own ground.
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book part or chapter
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Bergdoll, Barry
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Gray, Jennifer
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2017
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New York
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Unpacking the Archives: Frank Lloyd Wright at 150
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March 19, 2017
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