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