One of Wright’s earlier projects, the Robie House in Chicago was designed and built between 1908-10.

Wright’s work was influenced by the expansive prairie landscape of the American Midwest where he grew up. Of this, Wright said, ‘The prairie has a beauty of its own and we should recognise and accentuate this natural beauty, its quiet level. Hence, gently sloping roofs, low proportions, quiet sky lines, suppressed heavy-set chimneys and sheltering overhangs, low terraces and out-reaching walls sequestering private gardens’.