PrarieMod

The Prairie School and Modernism emerged from the arts and crafts movement in the late 19^th century. The Prairie School was founded by Frank Lloyd Wright and his work was influential to modern architects. The PrairieMod website promotes these fundamentals on which Frank Lloyd Wright and other modern architects work was a success. The websites examines principles of prairie school innovators in the design and modern work that exist today.

This month the author Eric O’Malley took the time out to promote our firm (Nicholson Architects). The article features a series of photos of our work as well as some blatant yet informative answers from the Architect and Owner, Duncan Nicholson.

Excerpt from article:

Eric: Are there specific principles that you use in your everyday work? Please explain what they are.

Duncan: The principle is there for anyone to read about but I think it is best to see it in action. Sullivan and Wright wrote about having the architectural idea but I got to see it occur when John (Lautner) did it. It takes a lot of work, a lot of concentration and a lot of confidence to not copy and do something original. That is why it isn't taught in schools because so few professors have not taken the time to develop their minds to do it. Most don't know that you can. They pass it off as serendipity or some such thing because maybe they luck into an elegant solution from time to time. But that's more like putting a million monkeys’ indefinitely in a room with a piano, one day one of them is going to tap out Beethoven's fifth. The mind can be taught and self directed to create reliably but as I said, it takes a lot of work. Nothing beautiful was or is ever created without sacrifice.