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4 unusual facts about Robie House


Robie House

In Blue Balliett's book, The Wright 3, the Robie house is the main part of the story.

Directly across 58th Street from the Robie House is the Charles M. Harper Center of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

During his very brief tenure as a student at the University of Wisconsin, Wright had been a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

Designed by the Uruguayan-born architect Rafael Viñoly and completed in 2004, the building both respects the scale of the Robie House and contains elements that echo Wright's contributions to the vocabulary of modern architecture.



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