This is the second building in the series. I will be posting on a large variety of buildings.
So far I have posted on:
1. The Solomon Guggenheim Museum
2. The Emil Bach House
It is characteristic of Wright with the cubes and rectangles intermingled and the flat, overhanging roofs;
This is the style that he helped very much to progress: Prairie Style.
Prairie Style is an organic type of architecture that is supposed to be more natural.
It was built in 1915. It has 2,700 square feet of space.
It is the only Prairie Style house designed by Wright left standing in Chicago.
It was designed for Emil Bach, who was an admirer of Wright. It was just for his family, and has 2 stories and a basement. When it was built, it was considered a country house, and had a view out onto Lake Michigan, but Now it is completely surrounded by other houses and apartment buildings.
Since 2003, it has been sold several times, each price being over a million dollars. And at the present it is still inhabited by a family.
I included this house in the series because it a great example of his prairie style houses, but not as famous as Falling Water. If I had posted on Falling Water, then some people wouldn't have learned anything.
I really like this house.
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