Rosenbaum, Alvin

Usonia : Frank Lloyd Wright's design for America / Alvin Rosenbaum - Washington, D.C. : Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation , c1993 - 215 p. : illus. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The fascinating parallel narratives of three men who influenced the era between 1920 and 1950 - Wright, Henry Ford and Franklin D. Roosevelt - are interwoven with provocative details about other lives, historic events and personal insights to demonstrate how Wright's ideas have shaped modern America. Describes how the architect's vision failed and succeeded and how Usonia was realized in expected and unexpected ways.


English.

9780891332015


Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Ford, Henry (, 1863-1947)
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945


Usonian houses---United States

NA7208 / .R67 1993

728.37092 ROS