While wright s prairie houses are typically horizontal like the midwest landscape the robie house site helped wright determine the design of the building.
Robie house floor plan dimensions.
Wright created a floor plan of two long rectangles that fit within the narrow dimensions of the lot.
Considered by many architectural scholars to be one of the most influential and important residential designs of the 20th century wright s robie house is the pinnacle expression of.
The last and best of the houses in wright s prairie era the robie house seems designed for a plain rather than the narrow corner lot where it is located in hyde park a suburb of chicago.
Robie and his family was one of wright s earlier projects.
Completed in 1910 in chicago united states.
Influenced by the flat expanisve prairie landscape of the.
At the time it was built its elongated horizontal profile seemed an exceedingly strange appearance among its conventional and vertical neighbors.
Designed and built between 1908 1910 the robie house for client frederick c.
W hen frederick robie commissioned frank lloyd wright to design a home for him and his growing family in 1908 neither man knew that the home s iconic design would become the celebrated jewel that it is today.
Designed and built between 1908 1910 the robie house for client frederick c.
Robie house is a u s.