The Textbook of Architecture

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Prairie style

Also called Prairie School, Prairie house

The low, horizontal houses of Frank Lloyd Wright and his circle in the American Midwest, c. 1900–1915: hipped roofs with deep eaves, bands of windows, central hearths.

The Prairie house Open in Models ↗

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters The Modern Movement.

Nearby in the glossary

Post-and-lintel · Pozzolana · Pradakshina · Praecinctio · Prakara · Prasat · Primitive hut · Pronaos