Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, the only comprehensive book on the life work of the most famed living U.S. architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, has been a monumental, professorial volume written more than 30 years ago in German (Frank Lloyd Wright, ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe, by Kuno Francke; Berlin; 1910). Last week the U.S. got its first thorough native survey of Architect Wright's restless, productive development...
Wisconsin-born Architect Wright went to Chicago as an apprentice draftsman in 1887, just when the first modern skyscrapers in the world were abuilding in that brawny city. While the rest of the U.S. was content with old-fashioned imitation Greek pillars and Victorian knickknacks, Chicago Architects William Le Baron Jenney, Louis Sullivan and John Root had thought out a new, austere type of building that was to dominate U.S. big-city architecture for half a century...
...more than a decade Chicago* led the world, architecturally, its steel-framed, many-storied and many-windowed office buildings setting new standards of functionalism and honesty. In the offices of the great Louis Sullivan, budding Architect Wright learned the famed Sullivan dictum, "form follows function," helped design some of Sullivan's biggest projects, ended by influencing Sullivan himself...
...California architects are mostly as young as their ideas. Oldest of them, and acknowledged as leader of the group, is 50-year-old, Viennese-born Richard Neutra, a former lecturer at Germany's famed Bauhaus, who went to Los Angeles 16 years ago to build houses in the stark international style, but whose ideas have since thawed out in the California sunshine. The others represented in San Francisco's exhibition were nearly all in their 30s or early 40s; Harwell Hamilton Harris, who used to be a sculptor, has been building houses for only seven years; his paper...
...important influence, acknowledged with particular reverence by Architects Clark, Wurster and Dinwiddie, is that of an 80-year-old pioneer named Bernard Ralph Maybeck, Brooklyn-born son of a German woodcarver. who went to California in 1894 and later became the founder and director of the University of California's School of Architecture. A romanticist like Frank Lloyd Wright, he was the first architect to use unfinished California redwood as a decorative element in beautiful building, the first to wed his free, unconventional designs to the mountainous beauty of the California landscape. Maybeck is principally remembered for his dreamlike...