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Chicago Illinois USA

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Page 1 Robie House ™ Chicago Illinois USA Booklet available in English on Heft in deutscher Sprache erhältlich auf Livret disponible en français sur Folleto disponible en español en Folheto disponível em português em Architecture.LEGO.com A füzet magyarul ezen a honlapon olvasható:...
Page 2 © Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust...
Page 3: Table Of Contents
The design and construction of Frederick C. Robie House ..6 ™ From 1910 to today ....................12 Frank Lloyd Wright ....................14 Facts about Frederick C. Robie House ..........15 ™ A Word from the Artist ..................176 The ‘Scale Model’ line–LEGO Architecture in the 1960s ..177 References .......................179...
Page 4 FLWFDN...
Page 5: Frederick C. Robie ™ House
Frederick C. Robie House ™ Frederick C. Robie House, completed in 1910, is widely considered to be Frank many windows and balconies. Open spaces on the first and second floors of ™ Lloyd Wright’s most accomplished Prairie style work. This architectural style, the the interiors of the homes were intended to continue to the outside through first that was uniquely American, is characterized by dominating horizontal lines, these windows.
Page 6 The design & construction of Frederick C. Robie House ™ In 1908, Frederick C. Robie, a young and ambitious Chicago businessman, “From the first we had a definite community of thought.” Frederick Robie, decided he wanted to build a “sturdy, functional and strikingly modern” home on meeting Frank Lloyd Wright.
Page 7 Floor plan drawings (FLWFDN ©2011)
Page 8 To further emphasize the horizontal lines of the house, the horizontal joints of As the steel beams also carry most of the building’s weight, the exterior walls the red-orange, iron-spotted Roman bricks were filled with a cream-colored have little structural function, which in turn allowed Wright to fill them with large mortar and the small vertical joints were filled with brick-colored mortar.
Page 9 The entire building fills approximately 841.9 m (9,062 square ft). The front door rooms. These two rooms are separated by a central chimney mass, but the and main entrance are partially hidden on the northwest side of the building spaces are connected along their south sides, and the chimney mass itself has beneath an overhanging balcony in order to create a sense of privacy and an opening above the fireplace through which the rooms are visually connected.
Page 10 Living Room (FLWFDN)
Page 11 create what he termed a “complete environment.” As well as furniture for the including rugs and furniture, were not completed until January 1911. The final entrance hall, dining and living rooms, Wright also created the 29 different art cost of the home was $58,500–$13,500 for the land, $35,000 for the design and glass designs that can be found in 175 of the house’s window and door panels.
Page 12: From 1910 To Today
From 1910 to today Unfortunately, the Robie family’s tenure in their new home was short-lived. and neighborhood organizers to protest against the intended demolition. As a result of financial problems caused by the death of his father and the Commenting on the threatened demolition, Wright quipped, “It all goes to show deterioration of his marriage, Robie was forced to sell the house after living the danger of entrusting anything spiritual to the clergy.”...
Page 13 During and after renovation (© Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust)
Page 14 Exterior drawings (FLWFDN ©2011)
Page 15: Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright ® Arguably America’s greatest architect and among the world’s most gifted, Frank While there is evidence of Wright attending both high school and the University Lloyd Wright was also a man of boundless energy. In a career that spanned of Wisconsin-Madison, there is no record of him graduating from either.
Page 16: Facts About Frederick C. Robie ™ House
Facts about Frederick C. Robie House ™ Location: ..........Chicago, Illinois, USA Style: ............. Prairie Architect: ..........Frank Lloyd Wright Original Cost:........$60,000 Date: ............From 1908-1910 Floor area: ......... 9,062 square feet (841.9 m Construction type: ....... Residence Construction materials: .... Steel beams iron-spotted Roman bricks ©...
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Page 77 In arranging the kitchen, Wright ﬂ outed In arranging the kitchen, Wright ﬂ outed contemporary textbook rules for placing contemporary textbook rules for placing the sink and the stove far away from the sink and the stove far away from each other.
Page 83 The original eight-foot-high wall surrounding the garage The original eight-foot-high wall surrounding the garage had been lowered at some point between had been lowered at some point between and the and the s As part of the restoration project both original s As part of the restoration project both original and reproduction bricks were used to rebuild the wall and reproduction bricks were used to rebuild the wall...
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Page 105 Although Wright occasionally Although Wright occasionally designed art glass using stylized designed art glass using stylized forms from nature forms from nature diﬀ erent designs of the Robie diﬀ erent designs of the Robie House art glass are simply House art glass are simply abstract geometric forms abstract geometric forms...
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Page 117 With his interest in motorcars, With his interest in motorcars, Robie requested that Wright Robie requested that Wright include a mechanic’s pit sunk include a mechanic’s pit sunk into the ground of his deluxe into the ground of his deluxe three-car garage.
Page 131 The intricate geometric design of the The intricate geometric design of the house’s gates echoes the art glass house’s gates echoes the art glass windows. Indeed, Wright saw the windows. Indeed, Wright saw the gates as serving a similar function to gates as serving a similar function to the windows, as they helped to create the windows, as they helped to create...
Page 153 Although Wright occasionally Although Wright occasionally designed art glass using stylized designed art glass using stylized forms from nature, the 29 forms from nature, the 29 di≠ erent designs of the Robie di≠ erent designs of the Robie House art glass are simply House art glass are simply abstract geometric forms.
Page 179 Restoring the roof back to its 1910 appearance was only made possible by the discovery of a small number of original tiles that had been stored in the house’s wine cellar. The custom-made reproduction “hip” and “ridge” tiles fi t tightly to the planes of the roof deck, as they would have done when the house was fi rst built.
Page 189 Wright Wright integrated integrated ﬂ ower ﬂ ower boxes or planters into his boxes or planters into his drawings to ensure a greater drawings to ensure a greater synthesis between the building synthesis between the building and nature. and nature.
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Page 192: A Word From The Artist
LEGO® bricks as a medium. The LEGO brick is not initially thought of as a material typically used in creating art or used as an artist’s medium. I quickly discovered the LEGO brick was lending itself as naturally to my applications as paint to a painter or metal to a blacksmith.
Page 193 ® beginning of the 1960s when the LEGO brick’s popularity was still steadily these trends that the LEGO ‘Scale Model’ line was born in early 1962. increasing. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, the then owner of the company, began looking for ways to further expand the LEGO system, and asked his...
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Page 195: References
References Text credits: Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Image credits: Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Customer Service Kundenservice Service Consommateurs Servicio Al Consumidor www.lego.com/service or dial 00800 5346 5555 : 1-800-422-5346 :...