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Bring modern architecture to the masses? Was this a crazy idea or a stroke of genius? Frank Lloyd Wright designed a Usonian House but it never got off the ground.

“By the mid-1940s, Joseph Eichler had become intrigued by modernist design and in particular one of the creations of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, who had designed the Bazett house (Hillsborough, California), a rented home for Eichler during World War II.

Triggered by Wright's inspiration, Eichler began to fashion a vision short on home-building acumen, yet long on modernist aesthetics and his own iron will. Beginning in 1949, when it was still uncommon to find merchant builders engaged with architects, Eichler became engrossed with building communities of homes characterized by both flair and affordability.”

One of this smartest moves was choosing great architects of the day to help him. Eichler recruited the San Francisco firm of Anshen & Allen, then Jone...

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