Frank Llyod Wright’s Robie House
American architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright[1] is a synonymous pair. It may even be said that Frank Lloyd Wright was the founder of American architecture; the true innovator and visionary of the principals of the American way of life and its landscape. In the time of modern architecture and the Bauhaus[2] movement, Frank Lloyd Wright was not spoken of in virtuous terms. Wright’s attempts to create architecture that was unique to the American frontier did not comply with the movement that brought influence to America from Germany, Holland and France. This influence created an architecture pieced together from other nations rather than one true to its environment. What could be Wright’s Masterpiece of residential design came in the early 1900’s when he was commissioned to design a residence for Frederick C. Robie in Chicago, IL. This Prairie style residence integrated the American Prairie, refuted the white box of the International style and formed a language that was true to American soil without foreign influences.
[1] Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), American architect, built some 140 structures in residential, commercial and civic design. He became a major influence of 20th century architecture in America.
[2] Bauhaus, School first opened in Weimar, Germany by architect Walter Gropius. Young architects would live, study and learn the theory of “starting from zero”, the key overriding principal of the modern movement in architecture. A style that was marked for its glass corners, flat roofs, honest materials and expressed structure.
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