Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School

Between 1900 and the First World War, Frank Lloyd Wright and his midwestern contemporaries revolutionized the design of the American home, developing an aesthetic which stressed a reciprocal relationship between the building and its environment and the integration of furnishings and decoration with the architectural setting. By using natural materials, and by reshaping the vernacular architecture of the Midwest, the architects of the Prairie School, as this group has come to be called, created a style that was regional in character, based on traditional values, and yet distinctly modern.

Wright’s achievement and his influence were preeminent. It was during these years that he first gained international recognition, primarily through the celebrated portfolio of his work published in Berlin in 1910, which would profoundly affect the course of modern architecture in Europe. In addition to providing a penetrating account of Wright’s early work, H. Allen Brooks also examines in detail the contributions of a number of talented colleagues who worked with or were touched by Wright’s example, including Walter Burley Griffin, Marion Mahony, Purcell and Elmslie, Barry Byrne, and the “interior architect” George Niedecken. The book includes many previously unpublished designs.

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INDEX Architecture: A Columbia Architecture Book (D, Columbia Documents of Architecture and Theory)

INDEX Architecture documents the extensive cross-fertilization of ideas that can occur between architectural practice and education. Through work developed by students and faculty at Columbia University’s School of Architecture, it offers not only an archive of avant-garde work but a record of architectural discourse at a time when the design studio has been radically altered by digital technology.Writings, interviews, and images are organized according to an alphabetical “index” of key terms. Cross-referencing allows for a rich reading of concepts currently discussed in the field. The contributing critics and theorists include Stan Allen, Karen Bausman, Lise Anne Couture, Kathryn Dean, Evan Douglis, Kenneth Frampton, Leslie Gill, Thomas Hanrahan, Laurie Hawkinson, Steven Holl, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sulan Kolatan, Greg Lynn, William MacDonald, Reinhold Martin, Mary Mcleod, Victoria Meyers, Hani Rashid, Jesse Reiser, Bernard Tschumi, Nanako Umemoto, and Mark Wigley.

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