... convincing his clients to accept an entirely unorthodox and untested design for their houses and buildings. He first demonstrated his ability to do so, as well as his originality in a series of houses in Chicago, the most famous of which is Robie House, built in 1909. This large residential house exhibits what Wright referred to as his aim of 'organic architecture', which meant that "a house must grow out of the needs of the people and character of the country like a living organism" - the 'prairie style' of this house reflects in its ground hugging, horizontal design the long and low-lying far horizons of the great plains of the Mid-West of America, and in his own words "develops from within outwards in harmony with the conditions of its being". This style of architecture was designed to work from inside the building outwards to its façade, replacing the search ...

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