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TheRobieHouse;FrankLloydWright
Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page1.
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Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page2.
Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page3.
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Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page4.
Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page5.
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Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page6.
Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page7.
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Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page8.
Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page9.
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Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page10.
Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page11.
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Source:TheRobieHouse:FrankLloydWright.[PalosPark,Ill.:PrairieSchoolPress,1968.Page12.
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Source:Hoffmann,Donald.FrankLloydWright'sRobieHouse:theIllustratedStoryofanArchitecturalMasterpiece.NewYork:DoverPublications,1984.Page43.
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Source:Hoffmann,Donald.FrankLloydWright'sRobieHouse:theIllustratedStoryofanArchitecturalMasterpiece.NewYork:DoverPublications,1984.Page36.
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Source:Hoffmann,Donald.FrankLloydWright'sRobieHouse:theIllustratedStoryofanArchitecturalMasterpiece.NewYork:DoverPublications,1984.Page26.
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Source:Hoffmann,Donald.FrankLloydWright'sRobieHouse:theIllustratedStoryofanArchitecturalMasterpiece.NewYork:DoverPublications,1984.Page24.
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Source:Hoffmann,Donald.FrankLloydWright'sRobieHouse:theIllustratedStoryofanArchitecturalMasterpiece.NewYork:DoverPublications,1984.Page22.
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Source:http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Robie_Residence.html
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-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.
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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.