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Different Perspectives"To think is to deal in simples." Louis Sullivan, 1893
Nowhere is the efficiency and cost advantage of the unit system of design more evident than in the house for Don and Virginia Lovness of Stillwater, Minnesota. 
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After all, this couple who lived in a tiny travel trailer while building their dream house needed all the help they could get. The Lovness House and subsequent Cottage completed from Wright's plans are testimony to the success of the unit system of deisgn and construction. Eventually, this unitized system produced other do-it-yourself concepts such as the Usonian automatic concrete block house and a series of pre-fabricated designs.