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Prairie School
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Prairie School
n.
A group of American architects practicing mainly in the Midwest in the early 20th century, whose designs for low, horizontally extended houses and emphasis on natural materials were influenced especially by Frank Lloyd Wright.
[From the use of horizontal lines in imitation of the flatness of the Midwestern prairie.]
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25") to better display the images, this volume presents the 22 prairie houses built by Wright in the Chicago area, with many excellent color photos of each detailing the exterior and interior architecture and design details.
Frank Lloyd Wright; prairie houses by Reference & Research Book News
Just as Frank Lloyd Wright defined the US Midwest with his Prairie houses, so in a way have Murcutt and his imitators come to many of us to symbolize an architecture completely of Australia -- touching the ground lightly in a primeval landscape.
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To them Frank Lloyd Wright was the Wisconsin hayseed who hit the spot a couple of times -- the Prairie Houses of the 1890-1900s and the Usonian Houses 40 years later but otherwise, from the Hollyhock House to the Marin County Civic Center, reflected America's addiction to corny sentimentality and fantasy kitsch.
The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright by Tabor, Philip / The Architectural Review
 
 
 
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