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Source:http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Robie_Residence.html

-TheRobieHouseisapproximately9062squarefeet

- It is locatedat 5757WoodlawnChicago, Illinios.Robiehimself bought the siteonMay19th ,1908 for $13,500, and had previously agreed on April 8th that he would build nothing but aresidence.

-FrederickCarltonRobiewasanonlychildwhogrewtohaveonlyoneambition, tobe“agreatmanufacturer”. He was born August 14, 1879. When he was 16, he entered the school ofmechanicalenginneringatPurdueUniversity.Heleft4yearslaterwithnodegreeandreturnedtoChicagotoworkwithhisfather.

-HesoldbicycleswhilehisstayinLafayette.

-“Everything about the site suggested a long, low, streamlined shiplike house: the prairie, thenearbylake,thenewsenseofspeed,thestillunshakenfaithinthemachingandtheshapeofthelot,threetimesaslongasitwaswide”.

-WrightdepartedfromhisusualcruciformandpinwheelplansandgavetotheplanoftheRobieHouseararebeautyanddynamismgeneratedbyanewkindofasymmetricbalance.

-BytheendofMach1909,theworkingdrawingswereathandandRobiehadsignedthem.

-Robie watched his house rise with walls of brick, copings and sills of cut stone, floors andbalconiesofreinforcedconcrete,beamsofsteelandafinalstoryframedofwood.

-Theoriginalbudgetwas$60,000.“Thehouseexiststobelivedin.”

-Thereisnobasement,becauseWrightthoughtthemtobeunnecessary.Withoutandattac,theroofscomeclosetothegroundtorepeatthebroadplaneoftheprairie.

-FrankLloydWright(bornFrankLinclnWright)

- June8, 1867-April 9, 1959,hewasnotonlyanarchitect, but an interior designer,writer andeducatorwhodesignedmorethan1,000projects.

-HewastheleaderofthePrairieSchoolMovementwhichisthedesignstyleoftheRobieHouse.

-deemedthe“greatestAmericanarchitectofalltime”bytheAIAin1991.

-HeattendedMadisonhighschoolbut there isnoevidence thathegraduated.Admitted to theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison as a special student in 1886. While there he worked frof aprofessorofcivilenginneringAllanD.Conover.

-In 1887 he left the school without taking a degee and moved to Chicago and joined thearchitectual firm of Joseph LymanSilsbee. (in 1955 hewas granted an honoraryDoctorate ofFineArtsfromtheUniversityofWisconsin-Madison).

-Wrightpracticedwhatisknownasorganicarchitecture,anarchitecturethatevolvesnaturallyoutofthecontext,mostimportantlyforhimtherelationshipbetweenthesiteandthebuildingandtheneedsoftheclient.

Sources:

- Connors,Joseph.TheRobieHouseofFrankLloydWright.Chicago:UniversityofChicagoPress,1984.

- FrankLloydWright.,AnautobiographyFrankLloydWright.NewYork:HorizonPress,1977.Print.

- Hoffmann,Donald.FrankLloydWright'sRobieHouse:theIllustratedStoryofanArchitecturalMasterpiece.NewYork:DoverPublications,1984.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright- http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Robie_Residence.html

- Jacobs,Herbert,andJacobsKatherine.BuildingWithFrankLloydWrightAn IllustratedMemoir.SanFrancisco,California:ChronicleBooks,1978.

- TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.