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Robie House. Chicago, IL 1909. The Robie House remains Wright’s consummate Prairie-style house. The long, low dwelling with its dramatic 20-foot cantilevered terrace roofs still seems a structural marvel. Wright eliminated the basement and set the building on a concrete water table. Brick piers and steel beams provide the structural framework ...
Frank Lloyd Wright Trust: The Robie House 5757 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA 312-994-4000. The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust operates public tours, programs, and events at major Wright sites, three of which are historic houses: Wright’s Home and Studio (1889/1898) in Oak Park, the Frederick C. Robie House (1908-10) in Chicago’s Hyde Park, and the Emil Bach House (1915) in ...
Completed in 1910, the Robie House (1908-1910) is the consummate expression of Wright’s Prairie style. Robie House sparked a revolution in residential architecture that still reverberates today and is considered one of the most important buildings in architectural history.
The Robie House was the only one of Wright’s many creations to inspire this reaction in him. Wright would go on to create such masterpieces of modern architecture as Fallingwater in 1939, and the Guggenheim Museum, completed in 1959. The Robie House, however, remains as one of the defining moments of the architect’s career.
Oak Park, Illinois (15 miles from the Robie House) The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois was Wright’s personal residence and office from 1889-1909. While the home’s peaked rooflines predate the horizontal planes of Wright’s famous prairie style, it was here that he began to germinate his big ideas about a new ...
Robie House. Designed from 1908 – 1910, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House is the most famous of the architect’s Prairie-style houses. Wright’s clients, Frederick Robie and his wife Lora, lived in Hyde Park on Chicago’s South Side, near the University of Chicago. Lora Robie was a graduate of the University, while Frederick was an ...
Feb 2020 • Solo. Robie House is one of the signature houses built by Frank Lloyd Wright. It is on the UNESCO world heritage list. Guided tours of the interior and extorior for USD 20 pp - guides are excellent and know a lot about the house and its former inhabitants, bringing the house to live. Really nice experience.
