Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School

Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School
Author: Allen H Brooks
Publisher: George Braziller Publishers
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1984
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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

The Prairie School

The Prairie School
Author: Harold Allen Brooks
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393731910

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 Drawing on unpublished material and original documentation as well as on interviews, he assesses each architect's contribution and traces the course of the movement itself-how and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.

Prairie Style

Prairie Style
Author: Dixie Legler
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999-10-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781556709319

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:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

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
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1994
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781566409964

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
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2013-09-04
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0486158543

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Alan Hess
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

"The mid-twentieth century was one of the most productive and inventive periods in Frank Lloyd Wright's career, producing such masterworks as the Guggenheim Museum, Price Tower, Fallingwater, the Usonian Houses, and the Lovness House, as well as a vast array of innovative furniture and object design. With a wide variety of shapes and forms-ranging from honeycombs to spirals-this period defies simplistic definition. Simplicity, democratic designs, and organic forms characterize Mid-Century Modern, and, mentoring such mid-century talents as Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler among others, Wright was one of its most influential proponents. Frank Lloyd Wright: Mid-Century Modern is a comprehensive examination of an under-explored period in Wright's career, a time dating from roughly 1935 to 1958, during which this master architect was at his most daring and innovative."--Jacket

Prairie Boy

Prairie Boy
Author: Barb Rosenstock
Publisher: Thinkingdom
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1635923549

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:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780252037535

"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"--