Chicago architect John Ronan has designed a Prairie-style visitor centre to adjoin Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois.

The architect designed the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor and Education Center to accompany the property that Wright designed and built for himself in 1889.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor and Education Center adjoins Wright's home and studio in Oak Park
Called the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, the property now functions as a museum run by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. The trust intends Ronan's addition to bolster the public activities with an extra 20,000 square feet (1.9 square metres) of indoor and outdoor space.
John Ronan Architect's design features a low form and horizontality that "alludes" to the Prairie-style, an aesthetic that Wright developed in response to the flat and broad prairie landscapes of America's Midwest. The simple scheme draws on Wright's Prairie-style architecture
The extension is intended to be built with simple materials, including pale brickwork walls and large expanses of glass, intended to complement a "snaking masonry wall" that wraps the existing property.
"The visitor centre is a discreet presence foregrounding the existing historic buildings on the site, more like the existing garden wall which surrounds the site like an element of site infrastructure than a structure which competes for attention," said the firm in a project description.
The project is intended to bol...