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The house was designed for Frederick C. Robie, a bicycle manufacturer, who did not want a home done in the typical Victorian style. Robie desired a modern floorplan and needed a garage, and a playroom for children.
22 Ιαν 2023 · Explore the visionary architecture and open floor plan that defied tradition in the early 1900s, and learn how Wright's Prairie School principles of continuous, flexible spaces in harmony with...
26 Ιαν 2023 · Robie House Interior. The design of the Robie House is characterized by two large rectangles that appear to be sliding past one another. Frank Lloyd Wright referred to the rectangle on the southwest portion of the site, which contains the main living spaces, as “the major vessel.”
16 Μαΐ 2010 · Designed and built between 1908-1910, the Robie House for client Frederick C. Robie and his family was one of Wright's earlier projects. Influenced by the flat, expanisve prairie landscape...
Inside, the typical warren of rooms is discarded for a light-filled open plan, centered around a main hearth. Wright responded not only to the openness of the American landscape, but also to the more informal quality of the modern American lifestyle.
Completed in 1910, the house Wright designed for Frederick C. Robie is the consummate expression of his Prairie style. The house is conceived as an integral whole—site and structure, interior and exterior, furniture, ornament and architecture, each element is connected.
The 9,000-square-foot Robie House was one of the last Wright designed in a Prairie Style. The architecture emphasizes long horizontal and short vertical lines, rather than big vertical elements, like the towers or two-story entry halls in Victorian architecture.
