Frank Lloyd Wright

Horizontal continuity with the ground

Prairie houses emphasize connection to the land with low eaves and horizontal lines. Robie House is the textbook entry. Organic architecture blurs inside and outside and starts from site and materials. Fallingwater and Taliesin West are useful poles for comparing relationships to nature. Jacobs House reads as a middle-income experiment (Usonian); the Guggenheim as public architecture where the path itself is the exhibition experience. American architect spanning Prairie style, organic architecture, Usonian houses, and late public buildings—always linking site, materials, and living. In 2019, eight major works were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.