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ROBIE HOUSE 1909):

A Prairie Style House

Frank Lloyd Wright


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The Architect and the Client

Frederick C. RobieFrank Lloyd Wright


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ABOVE: Fred C. Robie (left) in his experimental car, about 1906-1907.


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5757 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL

The location


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Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Drawing Sheets 2, 3 and 4 of 14, circa 1933

Plans


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First floor


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Second floor


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Third floor


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Sections


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One-point perspective: living room

Hand-drawn by Yuyi Zhou


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Section through the living room

Hand-drawn by Tammy


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The prairie has a beauty of its own and we should

recognize and accentuate this natural beauty, its quite

level. Hence, gently sloping roofs, low proportions, quiet

sky lines, suppressed heavy-set chimneys and shelteringoverhangs, low terraces and out-reaching walls

sequestering private gardens.Frank Lloyd Wright, In the cause of Architecture,

The Prairie Style


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The Prairie Style in the house


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1. Entrance


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2. Materiality


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To eliminate combinations of different materials in favor of

mono-material so far as possible; to use no ornament that did

not come out of the nature of materials to make the whole

building clearer and more expressive as a place to live in.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings, Prairie Architecture


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3. Light and shadow


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4. Horizontality


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5. Gesamtkunstwek: Total Work of Art


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To incorporate as organic Architecture-so far as

possible- furnishings, making them all one with the building

and designing them in simple terms for machine work.Again straight lines and rectilinear forms.



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To associate the building as a whole with its site by

extension and emphasis of the planes parallel to the

ground, but keeping the floors off the best part of the site,

thus leaving that better part for use in connection with the

life of the house. Extended level planes were found useful

in this connection.


Organic quality


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Let your home appear to grow easily from its site and

shape it to sympathize with the surroundings if Nature is

manifest there, and if not, try and be as quiet, substantial,

and organic as she would have been if she had the

chance.

Frank Lloyd Wright, The Architect and the Machine.

Organic quality


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The Robie House, blending with its surroundings.

Hand-drawn by Yuyi Zhou


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Brooks, H. Allen. The Prairie School. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.

Brooks, H. Allen. Writings on Wright: Selected Comments on Frank Lloyd Wrights. MIT Press, 1983.

Hale, Jonathan. The Old way of seeing. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1994.

Hoffmann, Donald. Frank Lloyd Wrights Robie House: the illustrated story of an Architectural

Masterpiece. New York: Dover Publications, 1984.

Jacobs, Herbert, with Catherine Jacobs. Building with Frank Lloyd Wright: an illustrated memoir.San

Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1978.

Lind, Carla. The Wright Style. Thames & Hudson, 2004.

Manson, Grant Carpenter. Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910: The First Golden Age. Wiley, May 15, 1979.

Smith, Norris Kelly. Frank Lloyd Wright: a Study in Architectural Content. American Life Foundation

& Study Institute, 1979.

Bibliographies


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Sweeney, Robert Lawrence. Frank Lloyd Wright: An Annotated Bibliography. Hennessey & Ingalls,

1978.

Twombly, Robert C. Frank Lloyd Wright: An interpretive biography. Harper & Row, 1973.

Weil, Zarine. Building a legacy: the restoration of Frank Lloyd Wrights Oak Park home and studio.

Pomegranate, 2001.

Wright, Frank Lloyd. In the Cause of Architecture. Edited by Frederick Gutheim. Essays by Frank

Lloyd Wright for Architectural Record 1908 1952.

Wright, Frank Lloyd : Drawings and plans of Frank Lloyd Wright: The early period (1893-1909)

Dover Publications, Inc., 1983

Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings 1939-1949. Random House

Incorporated, 1994.

Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Writings and Buildings. World Pub. Co., 1960

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