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    the UNIVERSAL HOME

    Feb 11, 2020 4 minutes
    BY PATRICIA POORE

    + UNIVERSAL DESIGN—easy, healthy, friendly—considers the wide range of human sizes and abilities. Product and environment design should serve the greatest number of people, safely and comfortably, by making everything as accessible as possible without the need for further adaptation or specialized design.

    DID YOU KNOW that Frank Lloyd Wright had a client who used a wheelchair? Long before the Americans with Disabilities Act, Wright used accessibility and “universa ldesign” principles to design a fully functional house that nevertheless, and without compromise, looks like the Usonian model it is. The house in Rockford, Illinois, was

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