This beautiful modern house makes use of the natural shade of this tree. Where possible, use your trees and create a haven beneath them. Take note when the sun hits hottest, and place the furniture accordingly.
Yet the homegrown Prairie School fell from grace, as transplanted Europeans such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius introduced International style to America. But we Americans altered that style to suit our character. So it was not the idealized modernism of Le Corbusier but versions that were more linear and stretched, more expressions of expansion and less of Europe's urbanism.