The regional American style Frank Lloyd Wright led from Chicago beginning around 1900, built low and horizontal to echo the flat Midwestern prairie, with deep overhanging eaves, ribbons of art-glass windows, open interconnected interiors and a rejection of applied historical ornament in favor of geometric abstraction drawn partly from Japanese design. Wright's own houses and the wider Prairie circle, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin among them, carried it into the early twentieth century before European modernism eclipsed it in critical attention, even as Wright's 1910 Wasmuth Portfolio publication in Germany carried the work back across the Atlantic.
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PeriodWright's own Prairie output effectively ended around this point as he turned to other work; the wider circle continued some years longer. Origin RegionMidwestern United States (Chicago) 1 Prairie School
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Associated With
Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site
Influenced
Why this is disputed. Wright's 1910 Wasmuth Portfolio reached European architects including early modernists, and historians widely note the connection, but how much it actually shaped International Style design as opposed to running in parallel with independent European developments is genuinely argued rather than settled.
Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site
Usonian houses evolved from and simplified Wright earlier Prairie School principles.
Influenced By
Wright Prairie School drew directly on Arts and Crafts principles of craft, material honesty, and integration with landscape.
Notable Examples
Source Casa Roig Museum (Wikipedia)
Source Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School (Wikipedia)
An early Wright work associated with the Prairie School.
Source Meyer May House - Wikipedia
Source Shadow Farm (Wikipedia)
Source Taliesin (Wikidata)
Source Technical High School (Salt Lake City) (Wikipedia)
Source Unity Temple (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site
Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationNotable Examples: Robie House, Frederick C. Robie House, style sectionQuote, Notable Examples: Robie House, Frederick C. Robie House, style section
one of Wright's best Prairie style buildings
Meyer May House - Wikipedia
Notable Examples: Meyer May House, infobox architectural_style field: Prairie SchoolView the Source Unity Temple (Wikipedia)
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architecture: Prairie style; Modern
Casa Roig Museum (Wikipedia)
Notable Examples: Casa Roig Museum, Infobox, architectureQuote, Notable Examples: Casa Roig Museum, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Prairie School
Technical High School (Salt Lake City) (Wikipedia)
Notable Examples: Technical High School (Salt Lake City), Infobox, architectureQuote, Notable Examples: Technical High School (Salt Lake City), Infobox, architecture
architecture: Prairie Style
Shadow Farm (Wikipedia)
Notable Examples: Shadow Farm, Infobox, architectureQuote, Notable Examples: Shadow Farm, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Prairie School, Queen Anne
Taliesin (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationNotable Examples: Taliesin, Wikidata P149Quote, Notable Examples: Taliesin, Wikidata P149
architectural style: Prairie School architecture
Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School (Wikipedia)
Notable Examples: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School, Wikipedia leadQuote, Notable Examples: Jiyu Gakuen Girls' School, Wikipedia lead
The buildings have such characteristics as extending horizontal lines to blend with the landscape, the Prairie School design, which can be seen in Wright's first golden age.
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