Where's Our Generation's Frank Lloyd Wright?

The PrairieMod Squad has had the opportunity to travel to a wide range of places, visit different buildings and speak with several interesting and engaging people in the last year. We feel very lucky to be able to do these things and do what we can to report back to all of our readers so that you may also share in the experience. Lately, something has been nagging at us and we're looking to all of you to help us figure out a solution.

We've read about and heard first hand the impact of how an organic architect like Frank Lloyd Wright had on the lives of the people who lived in the buildings he designed. Testimonials abound from clients as to how living with Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture made an aspect of their lives better, richer, fuller. It makes us and many others who read our blog long to experience the same thing with their own homes. We espouse Principles that people can use to inform how they decorate their homes and where to go to find things in keeping with those ideas. But what about the house itself? Where is our generation's Frank Lloyd Wright?

We ask our readers to help us in locating architects or architectural firms that are as committed to designing "natural houses" with the principles put forward by Wright as Wright was himself. We'd like to hear from the architect's themselves and find those that are cutting edge and pushing the envelope in single family home design. We want to find architects that would consider themselves "PrairieModern" if they are out there.

So please send us any info you can so that we can start spreading the word and hopefully help turn the tide of home design towards a brighter future. We look forward to search and your suggestions!

Comments

[Mark Hertzberg]

I am not calling him this "generation's Frank Lloyd Wright," but I want to relate an observation by Jonathan Lipman, which is quoted in my "Frank Lloyd Wright's Hardy House." We were talking about how jarring the house must have been when built 100 years ago in a neighborhood of European revival-styles homes. Lipman said it would have been the same effect as if Frank Gehry built a home on the site, today.

[Eric Hughes]

I would recommend looking at these two sites. Both are E.fay Jones old partners. Both are great organic architects.

http://www.mauricejennings.com/

http://www.davidwmckeearchitects.com/index.html