Word: lloyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been my pleasure to have known the late Frank Lloyd Wright for the last few years. As a result, I feel impelled to offer my congratulations for the sensitive yet succinct sketch you offered to this individual's memory [April 20]. It was indeed an ideal thumbnail sketch of the high points of this native genius' life and times...
...dismayed that you did not pay more homage to another of Frank Lloyd Wright's great gifts-i.e., his philosophical power...
Cornell has a good number one in sophomore Don Rubell, as does Columbia in senior Lloyd Moglen, but Crimson captain Ned Weld should handle them if he is even nearly as efficient as he was Wednesday against Dartmouth's Dick Hoehn. Below the top man, neither the Lions nor the Big Red is very deep, and the varsity is a heavy favorite in both matches...
...show selects five as master form givers-the late Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Alvar Aalto. Of the second generation, eight are singled out as leaders: Architects Marcel Breuer, Wallace K. Harrison, Philip C. Johnson, Richard J. Neutra, Eero Saarinen, Edward D. Stone, Engineer R. Buckminster Fuller, and the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Reviewing the past, assessing the present, and eying the future, the show leads to two major conclusions: 1) modern architecture has now clearly swept its early Beaux Arts enemies from the battlefield; 2) its architects, secure in their conquest...
...architectural air even the oldtimers, once content merely to refashion their own styles, have turned innovators again. Le Corbusier's small French chapel at Ronchamp shows that the man who first put the box on stilts now leads in the move toward sculptural plasticity. Redoubtable Frank Lloyd Wright, who once made his houses hug the earth, built Manhattan's still unfinished Guggenheim Museum of reinforced concrete in the form of a giant snail shell resting on its smallest point. Even the austere Mies van der Rohe, in his proposal for the Bacardi office building in Santiago, Cuba...