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...pinned his greatest hopes not on the U.S. but abroad, especially in the developing world. At a meeting with Jobs a year ago, the Apple co-founder proclaimed, in typically hyperbolic fashion, "If enough people see this machine, you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it; it'll just happen...
...young philanthropist, John Nicholas Brown, who was looking to build a summer home on Fishers Island, R.I., for his family. Brown was a Harvard-educated man with a life-long passion for modern art and architecture. Interested in medieval art during the early 1920s, he collaborated with the architect Ralph Adams Cram to design the interior of the Gothic Chapel at St. George’s School in Newport, R.I. Brown’s interest soon shifted to modern art, and he was a member of the junior advisory committee during the founding of the Museum of Modern...
...Windshield project is unique because it represents one of the strongest architect-client collaborations of the modern period. Brown and Neutra exchanged over 150 letters, telegrams and memos during the duration of the project, and the Browns were often intimately involved in the smallest of decisions, from the color of a bathroom to the overhang of a roof. “My purposes in building this home in the modern style,” Brown wrote to Neutra in the fall of 1936, “are threefold: first I wish the home to be comfortable and convenient to live...
...made two mistakes: marrying an angry rich boy (William Mapother) and then, while separated, taking up with Frank. Theirs is a true love. But the affair crosses class lines. His mother worries openly about it; if the kid persists, he could end up a lobsterman instead of the architect he wants to be. Matt indulges his son; he thinks this is just a phase. Who's right, we'll never know. For Frank is killed. So is, more or less, Tomei's role--she appears only intermittently thereafter...
...pinned his greatest hopes not on the U.S. but abroad, especially in the developing world. At a meeting with Jobs a year ago, the Apple co-founder proclaimed, in typically hyperbolic fashion, "If enough people see this machine, you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it; it'll just happen...