該學派的目的是模仿工藝美術運動發展北美自己的建築風格。「Prairie School」一詞由阿倫·布魯克斯(H. Allen Brooks)提出,雖然譯為「學派」,但實際上並不為採用此類建築風格的建築師使用[1]。
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^Mahony uses the phrase Chicago Group in her unpublished autobiography Magic in America. The best known of H. Allen Brooks's publications on the Prairie School is The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and His Midwest Contemporaries, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.