Word: skyscraperism
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An erect, impudent youngster of 18, Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in Chicago in the spring of 1887 with three years of engineering school behind him. No. 1 U. S. architect was an immaculate, brown-eyed little French-Irishman of haughty brilliance named Louis Henry Sullivan. Sullivan fathered the skyscraper.
Two or three decades ago, Americans regarded Wright (1867-1959) as their greatest architect mostly because of the furious stunts with which he reacted to the International Style-his spiraled Guggenheim Museum in New York City or his proposal to build a mile-high skyscraper in Illinois. The present revival...
In a large, sunny room on the 21st floor of a Tokyo skyscraper, Electronics Engineer Kazuhiro Fuchi, 47, has assembled a group of three dozen computer scientists who spend each workday in 1983 thinking
Webster is the richest, greediest man in the world. How rich? He has his own MX missile; he schusses down a private ski run atop his skyscraper penthouse; he has never worn the same pair of socks twice. How greedy? He almost corners the coffee-bean market by directing one...
On a less operatic scale, however, he is convincing. Perhaps the best work in the show is Pressure, 1982-83: the white face of a worried, singlet-clad mime in the lower half and, above it, the cold, oppressive ziggurat of an art deco-style New York building. The film...