LEGO Architecture Robie House Bedienungsanleitung

Robie™House

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Contents

Frederick C. Robie™House................................................................................ 5

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s........

References...............................................................................................................

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FrederickCRobie™House

Frederick C. Robie

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House, completed in 1910, is widely considered to be Frank

Lloyd Wright’s most accomplished Prairie style work. This architectural style, the

ﬁrst that was uniquely American, is characterized by dominating horizontal lines,

banded rows of windows, and spacious and open interior plans. The exterior is

dominated by gently sloping roofs and building materials in line with Wright’s

ideas on the nature of materials: brick, wood, steel, limestone, and concrete

stucco, the last-named being used to cover the massive expanses of soﬃts

under the cantilevered porches.

Homes like these were designed to oﬀer their owners great vistas from the

many windows and balconies. Open spaces on the ﬁrst and second ﬂoors of

the interiors of the homes were intended to continue to the outside through

these windows. The relationship between architecture and nature—one of the

most important inﬂuences on Wright—is emphasized throughout the open and

ﬂowing design of Frederick C. Robie™House.

“We of the Middle West are living on the prairie. The prairie has a beauty of

its own and we should recognize and accentuate this natural beauty, its quiet

level.” Frank Lloyd Wright

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In 1908, Frederick C. Robie, a young and ambitious Chicago businessman,

decided he wanted to build a “sturdy, functional and strikingly modern” home

for his family in Hyde Park, an elegant Chicago neighborhood and home to

the campus of the University of Chicago.

Robie wanted a house with an abundance of light and great views of the

surrounding neighborhood, yet one that also maintained his family’s privacy.

He didn’t like small conﬁning rooms and thought that ﬂowing spaces were

essential in a well designed home. In Frank Lloyd Wright, he found an architect

who not only agreed with these ideals, but who could transform them into a

unique physical expression.

“From the ﬁrst we had a deﬁnite community of thought.” Frederick Robie,

on meeting Frank Lloyd Wright.

The actual site itself helped determine Frank Lloyd Wright’s ideas and plans.

Measuring 18 meters (60 ft.) by 55 meters (180 ft.), the corner lot was three times

as long as it was wide. These dimensions led Wright to think of the home in

terms of long, narrow rectangles. The home therefore consists primarily of two

long and narrow “vessels,” each similar in shape to the hull of a ship, one set

on top and slightly oﬀ-center of the other. When viewed from above, the two

vessels are easy to see; however, from the street, each blends into the other,

forming what looks like a single, continuous horizontal structure.

Thedesign&constructionofFrederickCRobie™House

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To further emphasize the horizontal lines of the house, the horizontal joints of

the red-orange, iron-spotted Roman bricks were ﬁlled with a cream-colored

mortar and the small vertical joints were ﬁlled with brick-colored mortar. From

a distance, this complex and time-consuming process creates an impression

of continuous lines of horizontal color and minimizes the appearance of

individual bricks.

Robie House was one of the ﬁrst residences to incorporate steel beams directly

into its design. These strong beams in the ceilings and ﬂoors were necessary

to create the cantilevered balconies, which appear to be suspended in mid-air.

As the steel beams also carry most of the building’s weight, the exterior walls

have little structural function, which in turn allowed Wright to ﬁll them with large

numbers of doors and windows. More importantly, the steel structure eliminated

the need for internal structural columns and walls, thus underlining the overall

open plan favored by both Wright and Robie.

“Both Mr Wright and myself were highly in accord on every line to the last inch.

And we agreed that there should be no deviation whatsoever from these

speciﬁcations.” Frederick Robie, on working with Frank Lloyd Wright.

The brickwork (FLWFDN) The entrance (FLWFDN)

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The entire building ﬁlls approximately 841.9 m2(9,062 square ft). The front door

and main entrance are partially hidden on the northwest side of the building

beneath an overhanging balcony in order to create a sense of privacy and

protection for the family. The entrance hall itself is low-ceilinged and dark,

but the stairs to the second ﬂoor create a sense of anticipation as the visitor

moves upward. Once upstairs, the ‘light ﬁlled’living and dining rooms create

a sharp contrast to the dark entrance hall, making the living areas seem even

more spacious.

The ground ﬂoor of Robie™House was designed for general everyday use, with

a billiard room, playroom, and service areas. The ﬁrst ﬂoor contains a kitchen

and guest room as well the home’s formal areas, including the living and dining

rooms. These two rooms are separated by a central chimney mass, but the

spaces are connected along their south sides, and the chimney mass itself has

an opening above the ﬁreplace through which the rooms are visually connected.

The second ﬂoor contains the private family spaces: three bedrooms surrounding

a central hall. The ﬁrst ﬂoor features a long balcony that stretches nearly the

entire length of the home.

When clients like the Robies hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home,

they received more than just a house. Wright typically also provided designs

for furniture, lighting ﬁxtures, wall hangings, rugs, and, in some cases, even

dishes. With Robie he worked with and supervised George Mann Niedecken to

Dining room (FLWFDN) Kitchen (© Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust)

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Living Room (FLWFDN)

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