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Cut & Assemble Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House: A Full-Color Paper Model (Dover Children’s Activity Books)

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Designed in 1908 as a suburban place of abode for a Chicago businessman, the Robie House embodied the full spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s pioneering “prairie school” of design. Today, this masterpiece of modern architecture remains a classic example of the builder’s ideas and ideals.
Long, low, streamlined and exemplary of the prairie’s spaciousness, the Robie House profoundly influenced the course of American architecture — such a lot in order that a model of Wright’s innovative structure has long been on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan.
Now model builders in addition to lovers of fine architecture can construct an accurate three-dimensional model of the Robie House, and thereby discover for themselves the harmonious interrelationships of parts and a lot of other design details that make this home a world-famous architectural masterpiece.
Printed in full color on sturdy card stock, the model comes complete with step by step instructions and exploded diagrams. A series of multi-level horizontal planes includes balconies, platforms, a porch and entrance court, whilst easy-to-follow directions clearly provide an explanation for how to cut, fold and glue walls, doorways, windows, roof and other features.
Students of architecture, miniaturists and paper engineers will delight in recreating an outstanding example of American residential architecture, which, in Wright’s own words, has turn into “a source of around the world inspiration.”
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