Prairie architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright houses have had a sweeping impact on contemporary home design. One of the easier ways to prove this is to zoom in on a recently-built home located all the way over in Bucha, a town near to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.Built by Yunakov Architecture, this house is right out of the Frank Lloyd Wirght playbook: low-pitched roof, overhanging eaves, horizontal lines, a central chimney, an open floor plan and clerestory windows.

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There is something about the high-desert prairie lands that indeed seems to invite the long lines and simple naturalistic materials that date back to Frank Lloyd Wright and the so-called Prairie Style approach to designing and building homes. In this case, however, novel techniques and new mater ...

The Wright Plus Housewalk took place this past Saturday, featuring historic homes here in Oak Park and also in nearby Riverside, IL. The three Frank Lloyd Wright homes on the tour have been maintained and decorated in the Wright style, which is probably as it should be, and the other homes were a mix of modern and traditional. The Avery Coonley House and Avery Coonley Stables/Coach House Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908 and 1911, Riverside, IL The estate has several properties on it, and it’s the…

Feldman Architecture added a green roof to this cedar-clad residence in California to act as "an extension of the surrounding prairie".

The Bruce Rickard-designed Mirrabooka House in New South Wales is a bona-fide bombshell - AND it’s for sale!

Dr Marc Ó Riain looks at the influence of 20th century architectural giant Frank Lloyd Wright on low energy building design.

Archmodell - http://www.archmodell.de Robie House on a shiny day

River Forest, IL. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.