wrote on May 21, 2019
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10:54 pm
Fallingwater and the Usonian works are my favorite Wright endeavors. It's a shame Wright was hampered by the primitive building technology of his day, especially the poor sealants available (most of wright's homes seemed to have developed leaks). The claim that a Levittown house required 15 minutes to build is nonsense - that is simply how often a house was completed in that enormous development. The evils of Levittown can be attributed to the gigantic (and atypical) sudden demand for housing for the 10 million returning GIs after the war. The system was totally overloaded and produced the junk that is Levittown type developments. The builders held all the cards. Later developments that were not as frantic produced structures that owed a lot to Wright's Usonian models.