The Prairie School

Author : Avi
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060513184
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie School written by Avi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the prairie It's the 1880s, Noah works hard on the family farm and roams free on the Colorado prairie. One day his Aunt Dora arrives to give him some schooling. Noah doesn't think he needs it. What use is reading on the prairie? But what Noah discovers will change his life forever.

Author : Lois Lenski
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453227504
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie School written by Lois Lenski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVIt’s the worst blizzard in fifty years! Delores is very ill, but there’s no way to get through the snow. How long will she be stranded at school? /divDIVOut on the South Dakota prairie, the winters are fierce. This storm is the worst one yet: It’s below freezing outside, and the winds are howling. All of the other kids have gone home, but Delores’s family can’t get to her, so she has to stay at the school. Between a fuel shortage and having to boil snow for drinking water, it’s been hard for both Delores and her teacher, Miss Martin. Now Delores is very ill. How will Miss Martin get her to the doctor in all this snow?/divDIV /divDIVPrairie School was inspired by letters from children at a real South Dakota prairie school, which Lenski then visited during the severe blizzards of the winter of 1950./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate./div/div

Author : H. V. von Holst
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486158543
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country and Suburban Homes of the Prairie School Period written by H. V. von Holst and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Harold Allen Brooks
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393731910
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prairie School written by Harold Allen Brooks and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sharon S. Darling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teco written by Sharon S. Darling and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melissa Wiley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442440589
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prairie Thief written by Melissa Wiley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “delightful mash-up of Little House on the Prairie and The Spiderwick Chronicles” (SLJ), experience life on the prairie—with one fantastical twist! Louisa Brody’s life on the Colorado prairie is not at all what she expected. Her dear Pa, accused of thievery, is locked thirty miles away in jail. She’s living with the awful Smirches, her closest neighbors and the very family that accused her Pa of the horrendous crime. And now she’s discovered one very cantankerous—and magical—secret beneath the hazel grove. With her life flipped upside-down, it’s up to Louisa, her sassy friend Jessamine, and that cranky secret to save Pa from a guilty verdict. Ten bold illustrations from Erwin Madrid accompany seasoned storyteller Melissa Wiley’s vibrant and enchanting tale of life on the prairie—with one magical twist.

Author : Dixie Legler
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781556709319
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie Style written by Dixie Legler and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing several rarely published Wright houses in new photos, this lavishly illustrated book is devoted to the Prairie Style of domestic design. 225 illustrations.

Author : Dennis Domer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alfred Caldwell written by Dennis Domer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compared with the land, everything else is illusion. The cities are the startled thoughts of sleep." -- Alfred Caldwell Alfred Caldwell is one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent landscape designers. Called a "genius"by Jens Jensen, he corresponded with Frank Lloyd Wright and visited him at Taliesin in Wisconsin. He collaborated regularly with German city planner Ludwig Hilberseimer and worked behind the scenes with Craig Ellwood in California on projects that brought Ellwood prominence. Caldwell taught architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology at Mies van der Rohe's invitation and at the University of Southern California, earning a reputation at both institutions as the most demanding and inspiring professor on the faculty. Yet this radical thinker consistently attacked academic peers and the parks and roads they designed, cried out against the loss of natural prairie lands to unchecked urban expansion, often began lectures with provocative discussions of the atom bomb, and even asserted that capitalism would likely collapse and be replaced by a more just communist economic system. In Alfred Caldwell, Dennis Domer has collected essays, poetry, drawings, autobiographical writings, and correspondence of this enigmatic figure who has guided and inspired a generation of landscape designers and architects. Caldwell's writings -- on topics ranging from landscape design to the role of technology in the twentieth century to the history of architecture -- offer proof of the creative genius of this passionate individual. He attacked the ideas behind urban renewal and promoted instead an organic, decentralized city that carefully exploited the environmental advantages ofplacing polluting industries downwind, gave residents ready access to healthful sunlight, separated traffic from pedestrians with green space, made walking to work possible, and formed neighborhoods into new settlement units. Dennis Domer's introduction provides more than just a complete chronology of Alfred Caldwell's life. Through his exhaustive use of varied sources as well as taped interviews and letters, Domer offers an unprecedented study of Alfred Caldwell that establishes irrefutably his place beside the other giants of twentieth-century landscape design.

Author : Cheryl Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright and George Mann Niedecken written by Cheryl Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Vincent L. Michael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252037535
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Barry Byrne written by Vincent L. Michael and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--