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The Avery Coonley house, also referred to as the Coonley House, or the Coonley Estate is located on a small peninsula surrounded by the Des Plaines River in Chicago, and of the few architecture pieces that Frank Lloyd Wright created, it is one of the largest prairie school styled homes that he ever developed; while also being the first of his work with a zoned residential plan. The other prairie school styled buildings that he created were the Dana-Thomas house and the Darwin D. Martin house. The house created a new layout, laid out in five separate, yet united property structures. He placed the public space, the bedroom wing, and the kitchen along with the servant areas on the second floor, creating three separate private spaces which had the best view of the surrounding landscapes. The bottom, however, had a direct relationship to the landscape around it, and included the entrances, the playroom, and the sewing room which were activities done in the public area during ...

Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos, born December 10, 1870, was an Austrian and Czech architect who was highly influential on European theorists of modern architecture. His personal life on the other hand, held problems; Loos suffered from poor health, a hearing affliction, pedophilia claims against him, and three marriages that broke off in divorce. Loos’ father had died when he was nine, and his mother took over his father’s stonemason business while Loos went to school. Adolf Loos attended several Gymnasium schools, a technical school in Liberec, and graduated in 1889 from a technical school in Brno; later, he went to study at the Dresden University of Technology but dropped out after a year. Loos traveled to the United stated and stayed there for three years. While staying he lived with his relatives in Philadelphia (1893-1896). He traveled to many places, and one in particular was the World’s Columbian exposition in Chicago, St. Louis, and New York. He moved back to...