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Figure 2. Basic composition of the prairie –style houses as analyzed by H.
Koning and J. Eisenberg
By referring Wright, they also enumerate three additional compositional
principles. These are:
• First, to reduce the necessary parts of the house and the separate
rooms to a minimum, and make all come together as enclosed
space
• Second, to associate the building as a whole with its side by
extension and emphasis on planes parallel to the ground
• Third, to eliminate the room as a box and the house as another
Usonian houses are part of the Prairie style houses designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright. Although Usonian style is compatible with the general principles of the
Prairie style, William Allin Storrer points out that, main idea behind Usonian
houses is to design and produce more economic houses for the rapidly growing
American middle class family. (Storrer, 1993) Thus, Usonian houses are
simplified versions of the Prairie houses. Main motivation behind the Usonian
style is “to make Prairie houses more compact.” Transformation of the Prairie
as analyzed by Storrer (Figure 3) can be summarized as:
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