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Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses : The case for organic architecture / by Sergeant, John

Table of Contents: “…Broadacre city -- 5. Popularizing organic architecture -- 6. Implications or Organic Design -- Notes -- Appendix A. …”

An American Architecture : Frank Lloyd Wright / by Kaufmann, Edgar (ed.)

Table of Contents: “…-- Organic structure in nature -- Creativity -- The place of the machine in architecture -- Architecture is poetry -- Trust in life -- The importance of folk building -- Aphorisms on architecture -- The law of change -- From Generals to Particulars : Preliminary -- Integrity -- One thing instead of many things -- Earth-line and human scale - the sense of shelter -- The early days of Organic Architecture -- Obstacles and protests : The destruction of the box -- Exterior effects -- The architect's limitations -- The architect and "the system" -- Architect and client -- Two ways to see a house -- The sanitary slum -- The nature of materials : Preliminary -- Light -- Glass -- Brick -- Wood -- Concrete -- Sheet Metal -- Tall buildings -- Some case histories : The Larkin Building -- Unity temple -- Taliesin -- The Imperial Hotel -- Ocatillo -- San Marcos -- The Johnson Administration Building -- Wingspread -- The Small House -- The Zoned House -- The New Theatre -- Out of the ground into the light : Earth -- Wisconsin -- Prairie -- Desert -- Site -- Where principle is put to work there will always be style I : Continuity -- Interior space come throught -- Integral ornament -- Where principle is put to work there will always be style II : From structure comes form and style -- The characteristic in architecture -- The discipline of ideals -- Simplicity -- Principle at work in Japan -- The future of organic architecture : Forecast -- To the young man in architecture -- Source list and Acknowledgments.…”

The Natural House / by Lloyd Wright, Frank

Table of Contents: “…Book One: 1936-1953. Organic Architecture -- Building The New House. Simplicity. …”

When Democracy Builds / by Lloyd Wright, Frank

Table of Contents: “…The shadow-of-the-wall -- Democracy: the gospel of individuality -- Our present social and economic disease -- The basis of the present city: a makeshift -- The victim of the battle of the increments -- This nation as an experiment -- The case for the individual -- The law of change -- The illusion -- The forces tearing the vortex down -- The exodus -- Descentralization and the new scale of spacing -- When machinery goes to work for the citizen, mobility enables us to go where we want to go -- What thought is urge to action? -- Organic architecture -- The human values of democracy -- The legacy we have received from the pasT -- Broadacre city -- Architecture and acreage are landscape -- The Usonian vision -- The attack upon the cultural lag -- Where and how wil the needed change take effect? …”