Frank Lloyd Wright Residence (Oak Park, Illinois, 1889)
Wright's own house and studio; became the laboratory for many experiments in domestic architecture.
William H Winslow House (River Forest, Illinois, 1891)
Essential step in the development of Wright's "prairie houses", designed for the publisher of House Beautiful.
Unity Church, Oak Park (Illinois, 1904)
First public building in America built entirely of exposed concrete.
Frederick C Robie House (Chicago, 1906)
Concealed beams create long, uninterrupted spaces that extend through windows on to porches and balconies, making walls disappear.
Hollyhock House (Los Angeles, 1917)
Decorative elements evoke Mayan architecture.
Taliesin, Spring Green (Wisconsin, 1911-1959)
Wright family summer home, remodelled throughout his life.
Honeycomb House (Stanford, California, 1936)
Planned on a hexagonal grid system.
SC Johnson Administration Building (Racine, Wisconsin, 1936). Streamlined headquarters of the Johnson Wax Company; clerestory windows made from bundled Pyrex tubes.
Taliesin West, Scottsdale (Arizona, 1937)
Wright's winter home: "organic" response to desert and mountains.
SC Johnson Research Tower (Racine, Wisconsin, 1944)
Tower designed to balance horizontal lines of the Administration Building; curved bricks, curved furniture, all custom made.
Beth Sholom Synagogue (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1954)
Tentlike structure reaches a height of 30 metres without internal supports: the "kind of building in which people ... will feel as if they were resting in the hands of God".
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum (New York, 1956)
Unique six-storey spiral ramp creates extended gallery on a single floor, wrapped around a vast central atrium.