We've selected eight buildings in the western United States by architects in the American School that are featured in the Outré West exhibition in Oklahoma.
The works feature in an exhibition called Outré West: The American School of Architecture from Oklahoma to California at the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center in Oklahoma City, which examines the work of post-war architects including Bruce Goff.
Goff and his contemporaries shaped what would come to be called the American School of Architecture in Oklahoma, creating "outsider" architecture in the western United States, especially in California.
"The buildings never look like those around them"
The exhibition features on originators Goff and Herb Greene and traces their unique style through the work of a number of their students. The buildings are remarkable for their uniqueness, simple materials and contextual relationship to their sites. "The contextualism of the American School is a particular one; the buildings never look like those around them," the exhibition's co-curator Stephanie Pilat told Dezeen.
"Sometimes they don't look like any buildings we've seen before, but they always relate sensitively to their site, the landscape, the climate, prevailing winds and contexts.  They are inextricably connected to the places in which they are built."

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