Research Catalog

Title

Usonia, New York : building a community with Frank Lloyd Wright / Roland Reisley with John Timpane ; foreword by Martin Filler.

Author

Reisley, Roland, 1924-

Publication

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
• Timpane, John.

Description

xviii, 172 p. : ill. (some col.), plans, facsims., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Usonia, New York tells the story of a group of idealistic men and women who, following World War II, enlisted Frank Lloyd Wright to design and help them build a cooperative utopian community near Pleasantville, New York. Through both historic memorabilia and contemporary color photographs, this book reveals the still-thriving community founded on concepts in his Broadacre City proposals. Over the years, thousands of architects, scholars, planners, and students have visited the community, but no book has yet appeared on this remarkable story. Reisley, one of the early members of Usonia (and still a resident), has written the first full account to illuminate the events, problems, and passions of a democratic group of people creating a community with America's most famous - and most famously outspoken - architect." "Usonia, New York features Wright's famous drawings of the plan of Usonia; stories of Wright's designs for the Friedman (Toyhill), Serlin, Miller, and Auerbach houses; photos by Pedro Guerrero of Wright's early visits to the community; the author's recollections of building his own home with Wright; and an illustrated index of the forty-seven homes that make up Usonia."--Jacket.

Subject

• Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 > Criticism and interpretation
• Usonian houses > Pleasantville
• Utopias > Pleasantville
• Architecture, Domestic > Pleasantville

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dreaming of Usonia -- Going forward -- Building Usonia -- A community at last -- Working with Frank Lloyd Wright -- Reorganizing the cooperative -- David Henken: our Moses -- Community life and activities -- Usonia revisited -- Epiloge. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Reisley House.

ISBN

1568982453 :

LCCN

^^^01000609^

OCLC

• 47813497
• SCSB-12010412

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library