Frank Lloyd Wright

known as Lloyd Wright was also a notable architect in Los Angeles. Although neither of the affordable house plans were ever constructed Wright received increased requests for similar designs in following years. In 1909 even before the Robie House was completed Wright and Mamah Cheney went together to Europe leaving their own spouses and children behind.

Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home his unique vision for urban planning in the United States. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by his design for Fallingwater (1935) which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".