H. Allen Brooks

Who is H. Allen Brooks?

H. Allen Brooks was 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, then pursued his education at Dartmouth College, Yale University, and Northwestern University. 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. Brooks's first book, The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright and his Midwest Contemporaries, 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.