Wright and the skyscrapers
Frank Lloyd Wright created an American house open to the landscape, and New York built Art Deco skyscrapers such as the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building.
Wright’s Prairie houses, such as the Robie House in Chicago of 1910, have low, extended roofs and rooms that flow into one another. Fallingwater, built in 1936–1939 over a waterfall in Pennsylvania, is his best-known house.
The Chrysler Building became the world’s tallest building in 1930 but was overtaken the following year by the Empire State Building. In 1932 the Museum of Modern Art showed the exhibition that gave European modernism the name International Style.