Word: architects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have unparalleled sweep and grandeur, but-save for Central Park-they lack sufficient stopping places for eye and feet, the attractive squares found everywhere in Paris. Finally, Manhattan can boast no artist thought great around the world (in all the U.S. there is only one of such stature: midwestern Architect Frank Lloyd Wright...
...Bachelor, a young and successful architect is on the point of marrying a "calculating'' divorcee when a sweet young thing from his home town breezes into his apartment-and gets...
Voters in Madison. Wis. agreed-15,169 to 13,885-to authorize the city to hire cranky old (85) Architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a municipal auditorium and civic center. Chortled Wright, whose unorthodox and costly brainchildren of the past had set the city's officials to view him with alarm: "The people of Madison have demonstrated that politics...
...called him a mathematician, because he uses geometric solids in many of his works. They might also call him a photographer, because of the precision of his exact realism; or a surrealist, for his surprising juxtapositions; or a visionary, because of his use of monsters and dragons; or an. architect, for his carefully rendered facades and buildings. He is all of these things, and one thing more: an artist...
Outright bribery was reported by Albert Cassel, an architect who had asked Powell for a $709,000 added mortgage on a Washington apartment project. "Mr. Powell told me the amount of work he had done on the thing," said Cassel, "how he helped the project to survive from the very beginning, and before this thing would be finally approved by him we would have to give...