Word: architectes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Frank Lloyd Wright, 89, architect, in Phoenix, Ariz...
...sleeping in a room in St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix, Ariz, was heard to sigh deeply, and then he was dead. So last week departed Frank Lloyd Wright, 89, three days after a successful operation to remove an intestinal block. With his passing, the U.S. lost its greatest architect-a lone, yeasty genius who devoted his life to working out his own unique vision of what architecture could be in a democratic society. "If this were an age like the Renaissance." said Architect Eero Saarinen. "Frank Lloyd Wright would have been honored as the Michelangelo of the 20th century...
...Architect Wright's great accomplishment was to demolish the concept that a building should be a box. But his genius was prodigal. Any Wright house contained dozens of ideas that lesser men seized upon and made a style. There is hardly a modern house in the U.S. that does not owe at least some of its features to him. Among Wright innovations: the split-level living room, the open plan for house interiors, the corner picture window, modern radiant floor heating, the carport (he coined the name...
Truth Against the World. Wright's jaunty assurance, charm, and dogged determination to achieve greatness were all in evidence by the time he was 19, looking for his first job as a draftsman in Chicago. His mother had destined him from the cradle to be an architect, hung his room with woodcuts of English cathedrals, hand-raised him according to the advanced Froebel kindergarten with its great emphasis on creative play with geometric blocks. Summertimes his mother's family, the Lloyd-Joneses-bearded, hymn-singing Welshmen who still boasted of their Druid motto. "Truth Against the World...
Mobile Lounge. For air travelers who would rather ride than walk those last few feet to the plane, Washington's new Chantilly Airport (completion date: 1961) plans something called "mobile departure lounges." Conceived by Architect Eero Saarinen, the lounge is a 15-ft.-by- 60.-ft. truck with upholstered seats; passengers climb aboard to wait until the plane is ready, are then hauled out to the ramp, where the lounge fastens to the plane's entrance door. Nobody has to move a muscle, though it could be dull...