The Prairie School
The Prairie School

Author: Harold Allen Brooks

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 9780393731910

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Inspired by Louis Sullivan and given guidance and prominence by Frank Lloyd Wright, the members of the movement sought to achieve a fresh architectural expression. Their designs were characterized by precise, angular forms and highly sophisticated interior arrangements-an approach that proved immensely significant in residential architecture. H. Allen Brooks discusses the entire phenomenon of the Prairie School-not just the masters but also the work of their contemporaries. Drawing on unpublished material and original documentation as well as on interviews, he assesses each architect's contribution and traces the course of the movement itself-how and why it came into existence, what it achieved, and what caused its abrupt end.

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School

Author: Allen H Brooks

Publisher: George Braziller Publishers

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Shows the floor plans and designs for homes, banks, public buildings, and furniture created by Wright and other members of the Prairie School.

Prairie Style
Prairie Style

Author: Dixie Legler

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 1999-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781556709319

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Showcasing several rarely published Wright houses in new photos, this lavishly illustrated book is devoted to the Prairie Style of domestic design. 225 illustrations.

Frank Lloyd Wright and George Mann Niedecken
Frank Lloyd Wright and George Mann Niedecken

Author: Cheryl Robertson

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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This volume documents the full-collaboration between Frank Lloyd Wright and Milwaukee interior architect George Mann Niedecken from 1904 to 1918. Both believed in the unity of residential architectural and interior design, and each influenced the other in furnishing many of Wright's best-known Prairie School houses, including the famous Robie, Coonley, and May houses. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Life and Homes
Frank Lloyd Wright's Life and Homes

Author: Carla Lind

Publisher: Pomegranate

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781566409964

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A summary of Wright's life and career as well as dramatic color photographs of his three homes capture the essence of this innovative man who forever changed the way we look at the spaces around us.

Country and Suburban Homes of the Prairie School Period
Country and Suburban Homes of the Prairie School Period

Author: H. V. von Holst

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-09-04

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0486158543

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Over 400 photographs, floor plans, elevations, detailed drawings — exteriors and interiors — for over 100 structures of Prairie School period. Complemented by author's concise text. Important primary source.

Prairie Boy
Prairie Boy

Author: Barb Rosenstock

Publisher: Thinkingdom

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 1635923549

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A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People * A NSTA/CBC Best STEM Book Frank Lloyd Wright, a young boy from the prairie, becomes America's first world-famous architect in this inspirational nonfiction picture book introducing organic architecture -- a style he created based on the relationship between buildings and the natural world -- which transformed the American home. Frank Lloyd Wright loved the Wisconsin prairie where he was born, with its wide-open sky and waves of tall grass. As his family moved across the United States, young Frank found his own home in shapes: rectangles, triangles, half-moons, and circles. When he returned to his beloved prairie, Frank pursued a career in architecture. But he didn't think the Victorian-era homes found there fit the prairie landscape. Using his knowledge and love of shapes, Frank created houses more organic to the land. He redesigned the American home inside and out, developing a truly unique architecture style that celebrated the country's landscape and lifestyle. Author Barb Rosenstock and artist Christopher Silas Neal explore the early life and creative genius of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, highlighting his passion, imagination, and ingenuity.

The Architecture of Barry Byrne
The Architecture of Barry Byrne

Author: Vincent L. Michael

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780252037535

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"Barry Byrne (1883-1967) was one of the first significant apprentices of Frank Lloyd Wright, studying in Wright's Oak Park studio from 1902 t0 1908. He followed Wright's principles, but forged an individual style more reminiscent of Louis Sullivan and Irving Gill, with taut planar skins enveloping modern space plans. From 1914 to 1917 he was the American partner of Walter Burley Griffin. In 1922 he designed the first modern Catholic church, St. Thomas Apostle in Chicago, and concentrated on Catholic churches and schools for much of his career. This book charts the entire length of Byrne's work, highlighting its qualities while discussing the cultural conditions that kept it in the shadows of his more famous contemporaries. In 1924 he traveled to Europe where be met Mies, Mendelsohn, Oud and other modernist architects there. He was the only Prairie School architect to build in Europe, designing the concrete Church of Christ the King, built in 1928-31 in Cork, Ireland. Illustrated by more than 100 photographs and drawings, this is the first book-length study of Byrne"--

Death in a Prairie House
Death in a Prairie House

Author: William R. Drennan

Publisher: Terrace Books

Published: 2007-01-18

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780299222109

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The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Unaccountably, the details of that shocking crime have been largely ignored by Wright’s legion of biographers—a historical and cultural gap that is finally addressed in William Drennan’s exhaustively researched Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders. In response to the scandal generated by his open affair with the proto-feminist and free love advocate Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Wright had begun to build Taliesin as a refuge and "love cottage" for himself and his mistress (both married at the time to others). Conceived as the apotheosis of Wright’s prairie house style, the original Taliesin would stand in all its isolated glory for only a few months before the bloody slayings that rocked the nation and reduced the structure itself to a smoking hull. Supplying both a gripping mystery story and an authoritative portrait of the artist as a young man, Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright’s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Outstanding Book, selected by the Public Library Association