Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...century eclecticism held the stage in U. S. public architecture. Wright kept off the stage. In 1905 he produced, in protest, a well-lighted administration building for the Larkin Co. in Buffalo, severely without ornament, the first office building in the U. S. to use 1) metal-bound, plate-glass doors and windows, 2) all-metal furniture, 3) air conditioning, 4) magnesite as an architectural material...
Since then, bobbing up. for the third time, Frank Lloyd Wright has done per-haps his most amazing work. In 1929 he designed for Manhattan an apartment house of concrete, steel and glass more radical and inventive than any even proposed in functionalist Europe. This and a grander design for a desert resort in Arizona were kept off the ground by Depression. Wright's desert camp of canvas and boxwood, built by his apprentices in 1929, stands as one of his most brilliant pieces of geometrical design. Still ignored by conventional architects, never invited to take part...
These "dendriform" columns, growing from the floor and increasing the spaciousness of the floor level, were made possible by a distribution of stresses through concrete reinforced by welded steel mesh. The huge main room is lit not by windows but by a wide horizontal rift of glass tubing at the angle of walls and ceiling and by skylights. It is ventilated through two circular ducts or "nostrils" rising through the building. Radiators have been eliminated by a heating system under the floor slabs. Clients. The history of the Johnson Building illustrates perfectly one of the traits in Frank Lloyd Wright...
...Charles A. Loeser bequest, acquisitions from the Oppenheimer sale held in London last year, and loans from Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus. Also being shown are some English water colors, and a new permanent exhibition of Near Eastern Art. Included in this latter exhibit are Persian Miniatures and pottery, Syrian glass and Graeco-Roman pottery...
SINCE fire fighting is not a regular course of study at Vassar, they have left it all to the fire department. In fact there is a rule forbidding girls to extinguish a fire, even if they can do it with a glass of water. "Lose a minute and save a fire" is their motto...