Word: oded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impatient for Fame. Rudolph got his training at Harvard from one of the fathers of modern architecture, Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius, but he now casts a baleful eye on the master's own early work. "I doubt," says Rudolph, "that an ode ever got written to a flat-topped building in the sunset." Graduating with top honors from Harvard after a tour in the U.S. Navy (officer-in-charge, ship construction, Brooklyn Navy Yard), Rudolph was impatient for fame, admits he became a "structural exhibitionist." For instance, he put a fancy catenary roof on a 20-ft. Florida guesthouse...