H. Allen Brooks

H. Allen Brooks

H. Allen Brooks (b. 6 November 1925, New Haven, Connecticut) is an architectural historian and longtime professor at the University of Toronto. Brooks has written on Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School and on the early years of Le Corbusier.

Brooks served as an engineer in the Philippines (1946-47), then pursued his education at Dartmouth College (B.A., 1950), Yale University (M.A., 1955), and Northwestern University (Ph.D., 1957). After one year at the University of Illinois, Brooks joined the faculty of the Department of Fine Art at the University of Toronto, where he taught until retirement in 1986. He occasionally accepted visiting positions and lectured throughout North America, Europe and Australia.

Brooks became known in the early 1970s for his research on Wright and the Prairie School (the name "Prairie School" has been credited to Brooks). Brooks's first book, "The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and his Midwest Contemporaries" (1972), received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians. He has continued to publish on Wright and the Prairie School and has received the "Wright Spirit Award," the highest award granted by the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.

Brooks has also pursued the career of Le Corbusier. His "LeCorbusier's Formative Years: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at La Chaux-de-Fonds", published in 1997, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in biography and won a first prize from the Association of American Publishers for books in architecture and urban planning. Brooks was editor of the 32-volume "LeCorbusier Archive" providing thorough documentation LeCorbusier's practice.

Brooks was a past board member and president, and is now a Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians. He is a charter member of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada and a life member of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.

Writings

* Brooks, H. Allen, "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School", Braziller (in association with the Cooper-Hewitt Museum), New York 1984; ISBN 0807610844
* Brooks, H. Allen (editor), "Le Corbusier" Princeton University Press, Princeton 1987; ISBN 0691002789
* Brooks, H. Allen (general editor), "Le Corbusier Archive" (32 volumes), Garland Publishing, New York; Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris 1991; ISBN 0824050509
* Brooks, H. Allen, "Le Corbusier's Formative Years: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret at La Chaux-de-Fonds" University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1997; ISBN 0226075796
* Brooks, H. Allen, "The Prairie School", W.W. Norton, New York 2006; ISBN 039373191X
* Brooks, H. Allen (editor), "Prairie School Architecture: Studies from "The Western Architect", University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo 1975; ISBN 0802021387
* Brooks, H. Allen, "The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and his Midwest Contemporaries", University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1972; ISBN 0802052517
* Brooks, H. Allen (editor), "Writings on Wright: Selected Comment on Frank Lloyd Wright", MIT Press, Cambridge MA and London 1981; ISBN 0262021617

External links

* [http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009776 "The Canadian Encyclopedia"]


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