Wright's precast housing system shines at new SC Johnson exhibit

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"Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright's Vision Of The American Home" opened in May at The SC Johnson Gallery: At Home with Frank Lloyd Wright, located on the consumer products giant's headquarters campus in Racine, Wis. The new exhibit extends a robust partnership the company, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation have had for 75-plus years, rooted in the architect's mushroom-like, cast-in-place concrete "dendriform" columns at the SC Johnson Administration Building. Wright designed his first Usonian home for Herbert Jacobs, a newspaper man in Madison, Wis., during the Great Depression as a way to bring great architecture to every person, anchoring the concept with precast textile block units for exposed exterior and interior walls.