Andrew Williams wrote:

In article . net, John
Grossbohlin wrote:


Interesting quote from Wright. Though I never thought of Wright as trying
to go mass market he clearly understood what the technology could do. I'd
think today's wonder machine, i.e., the one that brings variety to the
masses, would be the CNC machines. With CNC the masses can afford fancy
looking stuff like Chippendale, Queen Anne, etc...

John



1901 is pretty early for Wright, before the Larkin Building and Unity
Temple. He was just developing the Prairie Style and mainly building
private homes.

However he was always looking for a way to go mass market--that was the main
point of his "Usonian Automatic" designs in the '50s, something that could
be built with little skilled labor--people have built them by starting out
with a mold and making one concrete block at a time until they had enough
to build the house.

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