For more than a decade, the seminary used Robie House as student housing, but then in 1941, the school announced a plan to tear Robie down and build a real dorm. There was an instant outcry about ...

The recently announced plans of the Chicago Theological Seminary to destroy Chicago's famed Robie House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1909, drew sharp criticism yesterday from a number of ...

Cheers, applause, hands thrown in air, photos taken. We make plans to go see the real Robie House in Hyde Park. Maybe my 9-year-old will grow up to be an architect. If I don’t bug her about it.

Robie House curator David Bagnall said the restoration ... designs and was copied from photographs and his original plans. “We were fortunate that almost all the other leaded glass windows ...

Furnishings and ornamentation were equally vital components of Wright’s architectural plans. Their reappearance makes the Robie House once again spiritually whole. The living room’s restored ...

According to the Robie House’s conservation management plan, Wright’s “Prairie vision was fully realized” in the house’s “flowing volumes of space defined by sculptural masses and ...

"More on the Robie House after the break. Save this picture! Main Floor Plan The Robie House creates a clever arrangement of public and private spaces, slowly distancing itself from the street in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Some Chicago area buildings designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright have gained a worldwide designation. Eight of his designs - including the Frederick C. Robie House in ...

On March 18, 1957, a 90 year-old Frank Lloyd Wright returned to the Robie House, along with a host of student and community protestors. The Chicago Theological Seminary had announced a few weeks prior ...

Robie House may seem tame in contrast but its fluid plan and emphatic lines make it one of the most important houses of the 20th century. If you fancy building your own, there's even a LEGO ...

The American Association of Architects named the Robie House one of the 10 most significant buildings of the 20th century. The structure features an open floor plan, which introduced a new way of ...