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and gained some practical experience by working part time on a construction project at the university. In 1887 he left school and went to Chicago where he became a designer for the firm of Adler and Sullivan with a pay of twenty-five dollars a week. Soon Wright became Louis Sullivan’s chief assistant. Louis Sullivan, Chicago based architect, one of America’s advanced designers. Louis had a profound influence on Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright was assigned most of the firm’s home projects, but to pay his many debts he designed ‘Bootlegged Houses’ for private clients in his spare time. Sullivan disapproved, resulting in Wright leaving the firm in 1893 to establish his own office in Chicago.
In the spring of 1893 Wright decided to build his own house in Oak Park, Illinois. Taking six years to build, Wright was free to experiment with his objectives in residential architecture over the next twenty-year period. Designing and re-constructing his ...

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derived from open planning with one room flowing into another. This concept was particularly evident in his early single family houses, thee so-called prairie houses, among the Martin House in Buffalo, New York; the Coonley House in Riverside, Illinois; and the Robie House in Chicago.
Wright’s Frederick C. Robie House, designed in 1906 for a bicycle and motorcycle manufacturer, is one of the world’s most famous buildings. Magnificently corresponding, it is the essence of Wright’s Prairie School style and the limit of his search for a new architecture. It is also among the last of the Prairie houses. During construction Wright abandoned both his Oak Park practice ...

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