Word: architecte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a most interesting piece on Frank Lloyd Wright, the "world's greatest living architect." Naturally I've known of Mr. Wright's abilities for years, but went anyway to my library to see again the photographs of his work. I agree he has everything-everything but taste...
...Photographer Zerbe is probably aware that Architect Wright also has something to say on that subject: ". . . What is taste? What conscience is in morals, taste is, no doubt, in the realm of esthetics. It is a mysterious authority, neither learned nor reasoned but there, regardless . . . In simplest terms taste is indeed what we like . . . In the modern world, however, taste is not homogeneous...
While under suspicion and surveillance, White was, we are told, appointed as the first United States executive director of the fund. He was also its chief architect. The opportunities afforded him in that capacity for betraying the country were very great. There were matters of great importance to the United States which were handled by the executive directors while White was a member. A first order of business was to plan
Autographing copies of his latest work, The Future of Architecture, in a Chicago bookstore, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 84, cast a cranky eye on his literary surroundings and snorted: "Books, books, books! Well. I suppose they're all right for people who have nothing...
Peeking over the wall of a villa near Cannes, the curious saw a squat, slow-footed man trying to absorb the Riviera sunshine through a heavy, fur-collared coat and baggy cap. The man, who proclaimed himself an architect from Paris, wallowed in luxury amidst the pines. He had five cars and a swimming pool at his disposal, was guarded night & day by a patrol of gun-toting guards and police dogs. The architect: Maurice Thorez, ailing boss of France's Communist Party...