Robie House
The Frederick C. Robie House was designed in 1908 as the pioneering home of Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1909-1910 near the campus of the University of Chicago in Hyde Park. It is considered the most important example of the American Prairie style.
Architecture
The first view is of the cantilevered roof surfaces, which make the building appear much longer and lower than it's what is reinforced by the emphasis on horizontal joints and the use of the elongated Roman brick. This gives the whole organization of Robie House along an axis to the outside again.
The entrance to the house is located on the back and into a kind of basement, which houses the billiards room, children's room, garage and adjacent additional adjoining rooms or the lobby. The stairs to the appended massive fireplace as the central core of the building creates the connection to the main living floor. The bedrooms are upstairs, located mostly on the back of the building and returned thus enters into the view of the page. A theme of the building are the flowing spaces and multi-layer transitions, this is already outside by the cantilevered deck areas in various fields such as the terrace or in the entrance, which is very widely covered by a terrace of the living projectile. Include items such as the spacious balconies with brick parapets, garden walls and planting should be mentioned here, because on the one hand protect the private sphere from the public, but also always offer the possibility of the transition and the connection to the outside. As a special situation in the interior that is significant to the living and dining room, which learns only by the drastic narrowing of a fireplace, to then re- expand, depending on the view to the living and dining area.
Effect
The American children's book author Blue Balliett In 2006 an architectural Children Crime - The Wright 3 - published in whose center is the Robie House.