For the right price, you can stay in one of several homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, situated in Mt. Pleasant Township’s Polymath Park. But if you are so inclined, you could also have a similar design of your very own.
Seattle-based Lindal Cedar Homes offers a line of Wright-inspired house designs , many of which were created by Wisconsin custom home designer Aris Georges, a former student and teacher at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in Arizona. Lindal approached the school in 2009, Georges said, looking to develop a portfolio of designs as part of its Architects Collaborative program. Georges was one of five faculty who contributed designs and he later provided digital 3D models and renderings of new designs.
In 2015, he was asked to develop a “Designer Series” portfolio of homes, which led to work on custom homes that incorporate the sharp angles and highly geometric design familiar in much of Wright’s architecture. The home kits are delivered by truck, and their price does not include construction and labor costs, nor the cost of the house’s foundation and utility infrastructure. Lindal does not list set prices on its website because most of the designs are open to heavy customization.
There are nine home kits in Lindal’s Imagine Series. All draw heavily on Wright’s Usonian home designs , which offer a wide range of flexibility and customization. Lindal also offers a handful of other options inspired by his work.
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