Editing Frank Lloyd Wright (section)

===Textile concrete block system===
{{See also|Mayan Revival architecture}}
[[File:Frank Lloyd Wright LC-USZ62-36384.jpg|thumb|Wright in 1926]]

In the early 1920s, Wright designed a "[[Textile block house|textile]]" concrete block system. The system of precast blocks, reinforced by an internal system of bars, enabled "fabrication as infinite in color, texture, and variety as in that rug."<ref name="Wright-2008">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KiaGDwAAQBAJ&q=wright+critical+writings |title=The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture |last=Wright |first=Frank Lloyd |date=2008 |editor-last=Pfeiffer |editor-first=Bruce Brooks |publisher=Princeton University Press |language=en |access-date=May 7, 2019 |isbn=978-0-691-14632-4}}</ref> Wright first used his textile block system on the [[Millard House]] in Pasadena, California, in 1923. Typically Wrightian is the joining of the structure to its site by a series of terraces that reach out into and reorder the landscape, making it an integral part of the architect's vision.<ref name="loc"/> With the [[Ennis House]] and the [[Samuel Freeman House]] (both 1923), Wright had further opportunities to test the limits of the textile block system, including limited use in the [[Arizona Biltmore Hotel]] in 1927.<ref>Sanderson, Arlene, ''Wright Sites'', Princeton Architectural Press, 1995, p. 16.</ref> The Ennis house is often used in films, television, and print media to represent the future.<ref name="loc" /> Wright's son, [[Lloyd Wright]], supervised construction for the Storer, Freeman, and Ennis Houses. Architectural historian [[Thomas Hines (architectural historian)|Thomas Hines]] has suggested that Lloyd's contribution to these projects is often overlooked.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hines |first1=Thomas S. |title=Architecture of the sun : Los Angeles modernism, 1900–1970 |date=2010 |publisher=Rizzoli |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8478-3320-7}}</ref>

After [[World War II]], Wright updated the concrete block system, calling it the Usonian Automatic system, resulting in the construction of several notable homes. As he explained in ''The Natural House'' (1954), "The original blocks are made on the site by ramming concrete into wood or metal wrap-around forms, with one outside face (which may be patterned), and one rear or inside face, generally [[coffer]]ed, for lightness."<ref name="Wright-2008" />