Portland Prairie Style Home
The prairie style was made quite popular by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright between 1893 – 1920. The basic design elements: low pitched roofs, overhanging eaves, strong horizontal lines, open floor plans, clerestory windows are still being used by modern architects today. Architects and builders in Portland were influenced by the popular midwest design and began designing and building prairie style homes in neighborhoods such as Irvington, Laurelhurst and the West Hills of Portland in the early 1900’s.
On March 24th, the Architectural Heritage Center in Portland will host a lecture by AHC Education Committee member Eric Wheeler who has studied the prairie style of architecture in Portland. Wheeler will discuss the connections between Portland and Mid West architects to help connect how the style made it to the NW.
Details from the AHC website:
“The Prairie School was as much an aesthetic movement as an architectural style. Promoting the Arts and Crafts values of simplicity, utility and beauty; the Prairie Style began in the Midwest and spread across the U.S., influencing a generation of architects around the world. During the height of its popularity, between 1910 and 1930, several regional architects, applied design principles first articulated by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago, to their own communities and clients in the Pacific Northwest. This presentation will highlight the Prairie Style buildings in Portland and explore the similarities and differences with other regional manifestations of the Prairie School. Architectural historian, tour guide, and AHC Education Committee member, Eric Wheeler, has studied the Prairie School for several years, most recently connecting the dots between Prairie School architects that worked both in the Midwest and in the Portland area.”
When: Saturday March 24th, 2012 from 10am-12pm
Cost: $10 members, $18 non-members
Where: The Architectural Heritage Center 701 SE Grand Portland, OR
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