Take a minute to admire this. In my mind, incredible doesn't even begin to describe it. Frank Lloyd Wright's "Kalil House" is one of my all-time favorite pieces of residential architecture. Maybe it's not your cup of tea, and I can understand that, but you just have to wonder: What would living in it be like? As it turns out, there's not much sense in wasting your time with that question-- odds are that neither you nor I will ever find out. The reason for that is the same reason why the Kalil House, one of Wright's great triumphs, was a complete failure. The house was designed in his "Usonian Automatic" fashion, calling for concrete block modular construction. The idea behind this was that the building was simple to construct, like a home made of big Legos, and that the homeowners-to-be could work on it themselves to save money. In fact, almost every principle of the Usonian Automatic style was aimed toward designing inexpensive housing that f
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