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Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian HouseA house designed 74 years ago by <a href="http://inhabitat.com/?s=frank+lloyd+wright" target="_blank">Frank Lloyd Wright</a> has just been completed at the campus of Florida Southern College. The single-story <a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/bachman-wilson-house/" target="_blank">Usonian house</a> (typical of Wright’s late style) was built on a campus masterplanned by the architect himself, and it adds to the world’s largest single-site collection of Wright’s completed buildings.1
Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian HouseThe Usonian house is the 13th of 18 buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Florida Southern College.2
Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian HouseThe walls were built out of around 2,000 concrete blocks and incorporate 6,000 colored glass blocks that act as stained glass windows.3
Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian HouseAround 10,000 board feet of southern cypress were used for door parts and jambs, as well as windows, lighting fixtures and shelves.4
Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian HouseColored glass blocks were made in color batches using a technique for pouring molten glass into blocks that has been around for over one hundred years.5
Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian HouseThe custom glass blocks for the Usonian House were actually poured in an American factory that has been open since the late 1800s.6
Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian HouseThe molds for Wright’s unique concrete blocks had to be constructed from the original drawings, but the mixture of ingredients had to be changed to provide a higher degree of resilience and strength.7
