该学派的目的是模仿工艺美术运动发展北美自己的建筑风格。“Prairie School”一词由阿伦·布鲁克斯（H. Allen Brooks）提出，虽然译为“学派”，但实际上并不为采用此类建筑风格的建筑师使用[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^Mahony uses the phrase Chicago Group in her unpublished autobiography Magic in America.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.
