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The Robert and Rae Levin House in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home begun in 1948 and the first house built in Parkwyn Village, a planned Usonian community created by Upjohn Company employees seeking affordable, practical housing on equal terms. Emerging from that cooperative vision, the house embodied Wright’s aim of linking domestic life closely to the landscape through glass, skylights, open spaces, varied ceiling heights, built-ins, and a carport instead of a garage. Its distinctive patterned concrete textile blocks, many glass-filled, made it an important example of Wright’s postwar effort to redefine American housing around simplicity, light, and nature.
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