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OCR: Late i his career Wright developed another Usonian system to allow people to build their own houses cheaply Called the Usonian Automatic, the system used concrete blocks that were simpler than Wright's glamorous textile blocks. The resultant houses were fairly cheap though more expensive than Wright had promised In practice, the proved difficult for amateur builders While the first Usonian Automatic houses were not buil until the early 1950s, the idea for them has its roots in much earlier developments. Wright's preoccupa tion with prefabrication cau be dated at least as far back as the 1930s; while his pioneering system of textile block construction extends back eveu further to the 1920s. ction even

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