Lesson Plans

Young learners identify shapes in architecture and recreate famous buildings through collage with geometric shapes.

Create blind contour drawings of Robie House art glass windows and integrate your own reflections of the natural world into a larger design.

Investigate the collaborative works of Wright & Niedecken and design unique furniture pieces.

Learn how Wright included the sun in his designs through natural light and passive solar heating. Create sun prints using natural materials.

Identify causes and effects in Wright’s life using Rosenstock and Neal’s Prairie Boy. Sketch a design for a unique home.

Examine how architects and designers around the world are influenced by natural elements like the Sun.

Explore the distinct characteristics of Wright’s Usonian homes as well as the Usonian Automatics. Then, design and construct a Usonian-inspired building using modular blocks.

Push the boundaries of architecture by creating an innovative design and building a 3-D model to scale.

Examine the budget for a 1907 Wright home, convert the costs into today’s currency, and create new budgets for your own home designs.

Research and explore how Frank Lloyd Wright’s innovative materials and technologies “broke the box” of traditional architecture.

Explore the unique characteristics of the Prairie style while creating a large-scale cardboard model.

Draw inspiration from biomimicry and organic design to design and build architectural sculptures.