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May 11, 2019 - A visit to Frank Lloyd Wright's Frederick C. Robie House just two weeks after the completion of a multi-year $11 million restoration. Located at 5757 S. Woodlawn Ave on The University of Chicago campus.
"Completed in 1910, the house Wright designed for Frederick C. Robie is the consummate expression of his Prairie style. The house is conceived as an integral whole—site and structure, interior and exterior, furniture, ornament and architecture, each element is connected. Unrelentingly horizontal in its elevation and a dynamic configuration of sliding planes in its plan, the Robie House is the most innovative and forward thinking of all Wright’s Prairie houses.
On the exterior, bands of brick and limestone anchor the building to the earth, while overhanging eaves and dramatic cantilevered roofs shelter the residence. The horizontality of the house is reinforced at every level of the design—from the iconic roofline, to the very bricks and mortar of the building itself. Through his use of materials, Wright achieves a remarkable balance of tone and color, as iron-flecked brick harmonizes with the iridescent leaded glass of the windows that encircle the building. Broad balconies and terraces cause interior and exterior space to flow together, while urns and planters at every level were intended to bloom with the seasons.
Leaded Glass doors, Robie House, photography by Tim LongThe expansive living space at the heart of the home is one of the great masterpieces of 20th century architecture and interior design. The light-filled open plan is breathtaking in its simplicity—a single room, comprising a living and dining space, divided only by a central chimney. Doors and windows of leaded glass line the room, flooding the interior with light. Iridescent, colored and clear glass composed in patterns of flattened diamond shapes and diagonal geometries evoke floral forms, while subtly echoing the plan and form of the building. In his design of the Robie House, Wright achieves a dynamic balance between transparency and enclosure, blurring the boundaries between interior space and the world of nature beyond.
In October of 1909, with construction underway at the Robie House, Wright left America for Europe to work on the publication of a substantial monograph of his buildings and projects. The result was the Wasmuth Portfolio of 1910, which introduced Wright’s work to Europe and influenced a generation of international architects. The Robie House would be the last of Wright’s true Prairie houses. On his return from Europe in 1910 Wright would continue to explore the concept of organic architecture but would seek new influences beyond that of the Midwest prairie.
Over the course of the twentieth century, the Robie House experienced a turbulent history of ownership. On his father’s death in 1909, Robie promised to settle his debts and was ultimately forced to sell the house. Two additional families lived at the residence, the Taylors from 1911 to 1912 and the Wilburs from 1912 to 1926. The Wilburs were the last family to live at the Robie House.
Frank Lloyd Wright at the Robie House, 1957, Collection of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation TrustFor the next seventy years the house would have a checkered existence, serving at times as a classroom building, a refectory, a dormitory, and office space for several organizations. The house was twice threatened with demolition, once in 1941 and then again in 1957. Wright himself campaigned each time to save the building. The Robie House was the only one of Wright’s many creations to inspire this reaction in him.
Wright would go on to create such masterpieces of modern architecture as Fallingwater, in 1939, and the Guggenheim Museum, completed in 1959. The Robie House, however, remains as one of the defining moments of the architect’s career. In 1991, the house was recognized by the American Institute of Architects as one of the ten most significant structures of the twentieth century. Today the Robie House stands as an important part of America’s cultural heritage, a powerful declaration of Wright’s uncompromising vision for a new American architecture.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust has completed a comprehensive restoration of the building, revealing Wright's extraordinary 1910 vision." Previous text from the following website: flwright.org/researchexplore/robiehouse
Architects: Gillespie, Kidd and Coia
Completion: 1970
Image Taken: August 2008
Set on one of Glasgow's main shopping streets, Buchanan Street, this building was built as a showroom and offices for the British airline, British Overseas Airline Corporation. Latterly a branch of the Halifax, and at the time of my visit in August 2008, a branch of the clothing chain 'All Saints'.
The whole building is clad in copper sheeting. The retail space and the office space above both have different façade treatments, expressing their different functions.
The double height retail space on the ground floor, originally featured a stepped soffit bringing the ceiling "down to 70s aviation scale". The small part which extended outside of the building remains, and can be seen as the angled element just above the shop front on the left hand side of the building.
The regimented grid of the office façade is broken up by the introduction of clipped corners to the openings, a simple device which adds a great deal of visual interest. The windows on the Buchanan Street façade are all identical, but on the other façades the openings vary in size, while still adhering to the same grid formation.
The building was B-Listed by Historic Scotland in 1988.
Temp built this wonderful display for my Happy Meal Toys and I love it!!! Thank you Templeton so much!
In 1994, LUC began work on the Eden Project in conjunction with Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, SKM Antony Hunt, and ARUP. LUC was the landscape designer and masterplanner of the internal and external landscape at Eden, “the living theatre of plants and people”.
The Masterplan design started with observations about the former nature of the site as an active china quarry. The zig-zagging paths seen today echo the old haul roads from the china clay extraction, and the levels and spatial arrangement were planned to bring legibility to the site. The masterplanning design process meant bringing everything together into a coherent design, as well as solving technical problems such as stability and drainage. The resulting landform is sculptural to accommodate the scale of the architecture and designed to minimise man-made slope stabilisation.
By the project’s completion the space had been transformed into one of the UK’s most popular visitor attractions and a leading educational botanical resource. The Eden Project has reinvented how a botanic garden works, what it is for and who it needs to reach. While working on the project, we collaborated with a number of professionals – from horticulturalists and soil scientists to sculptors and artists.
It was a dream project for a landscape architect, and we’re proud that it’s recognised as one of the most exciting projects of the last 100 years.
For more information, visit: www.landuse.co.uk
Hand Pumps for Community Water Supply
Location: Moradani Village, Mir Pur Sakro District Thatta Sindh.
Project Duration: July 2015- September 2015
Cost of pumps financed by: Mr. Afroz Hussaini
Implementing Partners: Lodhie Foundation & Shaan Technologies Private Limited
Total Pumps Installed: 10
Beneficiaries: 465 Household with an estimated population of 3600 Peoples.
Pakistan is one of the most water stressed countries in the world where total actual renewable water resources have been decreasing day by day. Presently water resources in Pakistan decreased from 5000 cubic meters per capita in 1951 to 1100 cubic meters in last year.
Currently, over 35 percent of Pakistan’s population does not have access to safe drinking water. The quality of drinking water supply is poor, with bacterial contamination, arsenic, fluoride and nitrate being the factors of major concern. Province of Sindh is one of the highly water scarce province of Pakistan. Deterioration in water quality and contamination of lakes, rivers and groundwater aquifers has resulted in increased waterborne diseases and other health impacts.
Coastal belt of Sindh is one of the highly effected areas where decreased inflow in Indus river delta is resulting in salt water intrusion from sea. This reduced water inflow destabilized eco system as well as made drinking water availability a major problem for the people especially women.
Mirpur Sakro is one of the water scarce area near coastal belt of Sindh. It is 90 kilometers away from Karachi. Since last 2 years Lodhie Foundation is providing relief to the community through installing hand pumps is this area. Lodhie Foundation is very grateful to Syed Afroze Hussaini for his generous support for the installation of 10 hand pumps in Village Mora Dani and surrounding areas located in Mirpur Sakro district Thatta Sindh.
Pumps Installation was started in Mid of August 2015 and finished in 3rd week of September 2015. Before the installation of pumps near their houses, women are used to travel 1 to 5 Kilometers to fetch a pot water for their families and cattle.
At the completion time of Hand pump installation nearly 465 households of village MoraDani and surrounding areas were enjoying clean water near their houses. Earlier they were dependent on open reservoirs, canals or open wells for drinking water. Women have to walk quiet a distance to fetch water and multiple rounds are performed to collect sufficient amount of water for their daily usage. Before the installation of hand pumps women have to walk 1 to 5 km, to fetch water which need 1 to 3 hours. Now the
condition has been improved drastically as, water is available near their homes which is a blessing for families and their cattle. Pump water is used for domestic purpose and drinking.
Availability of spare parts for repair and maintenance is not easy in remote areas. To overcome this problem each pump is supplied with necessary spares to keep it maintain without any delay.
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Nearing completion, this glass tower will be accompanied by more glass towers, all of which offer little imagination - perhaps the often dreary weather of London calls for as much glazing as possible; but it's becoming a bit monotonous.
Somedays I wonder if it relunctingly waits for us. We are so wastely us humans. I have made a decision, although written in code, to no longer wait for the completion of someone else's part......I am going to take what is mine and finish it my way because life won't wait. Sorry....had to let this out and I bet I have confused most.