Editing Frank Lloyd Wright (section)

===Prairie Style houses (1900–1914)===
[[File:Arthur Heurtley House (1902), Oak Park, IL.JPG|thumb|[[Arthur Heurtley House]] in [[Oak Park, Illinois]] (1902)]]
[[File:Taliesin600.jpg|thumb|Hillside Home School, [[Taliesin (studio)|Taliesin]] in [[Spring Green, Wisconsin]] (1902)]]
[[File:Darwin D. Martin House.jpg|thumb|[[Darwin D. Martin House]] in [[Buffalo, New York]] (1904)]]
[[File:Meyer May House.jpg|thumb|[[Meyer May House]] in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]] (1909)]]
By 1901, Wright had completed about 50 projects, including many houses in Oak Park. As his son John Lloyd Wright wrote:<ref>''My Father: Frank Lloyd Wright'', by John Lloyd Wright; 1992; p.&nbsp;35.</ref>
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[[William Eugene Drummond]], Francis [[Barry Byrne]], [[Walter Burley Griffin]], [[Albert Chase McArthur]], [[Marion Mahony Griffin|Marion Mahony]], [[Isabel Roberts]], and [[George Willis (architect)|George Willis]] were the draftsmen. Five men, two women. They wore flowing ties, and smocks suitable to the realm. The men wore their hair like Papa, all except Albert, he didn't have enough hair. They worshiped Papa! Papa liked them! I know that each one of them was then making valuable contributions to the pioneering of the modern American architecture for which my father gets the full glory, headaches, and recognition today!
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Between 1900 and 1901, Frank Lloyd Wright completed four houses, which have since been identified as the onset of the "[[Prairie Style]]". Two, the [[Warren Hickox House|Hickox]] and [[B. Harley Bradley House|Bradley Houses]], were the last transitional step between Wright's early designs and the Prairie creations.<ref name=Clayton /> Meanwhile, the [[Frank Thomas House|Thomas House]] and [[Willits House]] received recognition as the first mature examples of the new style.<ref name=Sommer /><ref>{{harvnb|O'Gorman|2004|p=134}}.</ref> At the same time, Wright gave his new ideas for the American house widespread awareness through two publications in the ''[[Ladies' Home Journal]]''. The articles were in response to an invitation from the president of [[Curtis Publishing Company]], [[Edward Bok]], as part of a project to improve modern house design.{{Citation needed|date=January 2022}} "A Home in a Prairie Town" and "A Small House with Lots of Room in it" appeared respectively in the February and July 1901 issues of the journal. Although neither of the affordable house plans was ever constructed, Wright received increased requests for similar designs in following years.<ref name=Clayton/> Wright came to Buffalo and designed homes for three of the company's executives: the [[Darwin D. Martin House]] (1904), the [[William R. Heath House]] 1905), and the [[Walter V. Davidson House]] (1908). Wright also designed [[Graycliff]] (1931), a summer home for the Martin family on the shore of Lake Erie. Other Wright houses considered to be masterpieces of the Prairie Style are the Frederick [[Robie House]] in Chicago and the Avery and Queene [[Coonley House]] in [[Riverside, Illinois]]. The Robie House, with its extended [[cantilever]]ed roof lines supported by a 110-foot-long (34&nbsp;m) channel of steel, is the most dramatic. Its living and dining areas form virtually one uninterrupted space. With this and other buildings, included in the publication of the [[Wasmuth Portfolio]] (1910), Wright's work became known to European architects and had a profound influence on them after World War I.

Wright's residential designs of this era were known as "prairie houses" because the designs complemented the land around Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Silzer |first=Kate |date=September 10, 2019 |title=Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's 5 Key Works |url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-understanding-frank-lloyd-wright-5-key-works |access-date=December 19, 2023 |website=Artsy |language=en}}</ref> Prairie Style houses often have a combination of these features: one or two stories with one-story projections, an open floor plan, low-pitched roofs with broad, overhanging eaves, strong horizontal lines, ribbons of windows (often casements), a prominent central chimney, built-in stylized cabinetry, and a wide use of natural materials{{snd}}especially stone and wood.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.antiquehome.org/Architectural-Style/prairie.htm |title=Prairie School Architecture |website=www.antiquehome.org |access-date=May 31, 2017}}</ref>

By 1909, Wright had begun to reject the upper-middle-class Prairie Style [[single-family house]] model, shifting his focus to a more democratic architecture.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Storrer |first1=William Allin |title=The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright : a complete catalog |date=2007 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-0-226-77620-0 |page=xvii |edition=Updated 3rd }}</ref> Wright went to Europe in 1909 with a portfolio of his work and presented it to Berlin publisher [[Ernst Wasmuth]].<ref>Secrest, p. 202.</ref> ''Studies and Executed Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright'', published in 1911, was the first major exposure of Wright's work in Europe. The work contained more than 100 lithographs of Wright's designs and is commonly known as the [[Wasmuth Portfolio]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wasmuth Portfolio – Volume 1 {{!}} Rare Books Collection |url=https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=204451 |access-date=July 12, 2022 |website=collections.lib.utah.edu |language=en}}</ref>