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In the years between 1890 and 1945, artists were endeavoring to disentangle themselves from the preceding forms and styles and followed new modern style in their writings. Henry James and Virginia Woolf search for to change the route of the modern novel by discovering the consciousness of characters, though playing with the ideas of time and space to create the present moment. This study endeavor to elucidate the modernist techniques used by James and Woolf, besides connecting the work of the writers with the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Using Joseph Frank’s theory of spatial form, my work searches for the resemblances between Wright’s designs of private residences with the design of space in the novel. All three artists, I have disputed before, are working with spatial form, linking together interior with exterior, to give the opportunity to the reader and the dweller to experience an organic unity, which eventually consequences in a freezing moment. Moreover to Frank’s theory, my study incorporate Stanley Fish and Reader Response theory and William James’s Principles of Psychology. The reader and the dweller must actively take part with the structure, whether a text or the home, to develop and realize the possibilities of spatial form. Also, William James’s ideas about the mind and consciousness influenced Henry James and Virginia Woolf, especially in their focus on character, rather than description. I have chosen Woolf’s To the Lighthouse to study with Wright’s Prairie and Usonian residences in LATE PRAIRIE HOMES. This paper looks at one novel and Wright’s corresponding work and almost at the same time period. By connecting literature and architecture, the main topic of this paper provides new ways of thinking about the two disciplines, especially concerning interiority and consciousness. James, Woolf, and Wright are all experimenting with time and space to create a unified experience, and the striking parallels between their work deserves more attention in all the resources.