Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was well-known for his unique architectural style. His buildings and houses were designed in a way, which shaped a unique atmosphere of living and had to produce irreversibly positive influences on humans. His style, later called the “prairie” style, had to emphasize the space over the matter and to show the building’s reality not as a usual container but as a space not limited by walls. Wright’s architecture and professional work are attractive in a sense that they are perfectly well-integrated with the surrounding reality: regardless of the materials used in the process of construction, Wright’s style symbolizes the blurred distinction between houses’ interior and the terrain around the house, with the Robie House in Chicago being the central representative element of Wright’s prairie thinking.
Frank Lloyd Wright was well-known for his unique architectural style. His buildings and houses were designed in a way, which shaped a unique atmosphere of living and had to produce irreversibly positive influences on humans. His style, later called the “prairie” style, had to emphasize the space over the matter and to show the building’s reality not as a usual container but as a space not limited by walls. Wright’s architecture and professional work are attractive in a sense that they are perfectly well-integrated with the surrounding reality: regardless of the materials used in the process of construction, Wright’s style symbolizes the blurred distinction between houses’ interior and the terrain around the house, with the Robie House in Chicago being the central representative element of Wright’s prairie thinking.
For many professionals and amateurs, the name of Frank Lloyd Wright is associated with the word “prairie” – the word, which is currently used to define the peculiarities of Wright’s architectural style. That the early years of Wright’s professional development had laid the foundation for the subsequent development of his Prairie style is obvious: in the newly build Chicago suburbs Wright was often given a unique opportunity to experiment with different styles, including Tudor, Colonial, Georgian, and even Queen Anne (Moffett, Fazio and Wodenhouse, 2003). Of all these styles, Wright was wise enough to choose the features and characteristics that could create and supplement his emerging Prairie vision – with the emphasis made on horizontal lines, and a cruciform plan used to extend the four arms of a house from the central chimney mass (Moffett, Fazio & Wodenhouse, 2003). In his book, Wright (1910) wrote that “horizontal line is the line of domesticity. The virtue of the horizontal lines is respectfully invoked in these buildings. The inches in height gain tremendous force compared with any practicable spread upon the ground”.
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