Windows of a Prairie House
by Evie Carrier
Title
Windows of a Prairie House
Artist
Evie Carrier
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Style home in Grand Rapids Michigan is filled with beautiful details such as these windows. Wright's residential designs were known as "prairie houses" because the designs complemented the land around Chicago. These houses featured extended low buildings with shallow, sloping roofs, clean sky lines, suppressed chimneys, overhangs and terraces all using unfinished materials. The houses are credited with being the first examples of the "open plan". Windows whenever possible are long, and low, allowing a connection between the interior and nature, outside, that was new to western architecture and reflected the influence of Japanese architecture on Wright. The manipulation of interior space in residential and public buildings are hallmarks of his style.
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April 14th, 2014
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