Frank Lloyd Wright : American System-Built Houses

Images from MOMA new york - THE COLLECTION

From 1911-1917 Frank Lloyd Wright with a building company worked up "American System-Built Houses" reported to have done over 900 the "system built housing array" was never constructed.

"Wright explicitly indicated that it was the elements that where prefabricated no the overall forms."

A collection of components; walls, floors, doors, windows and staircases etc. could be used as a tool kit for the architect, or more interestingly as a catalogue/menu of options for the client.

From limitations to mass customisation.

Text references from "Home Delivery" exhibition book MOMA NY 2008