Word: wright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Careful Eye. Unlike Frank Lloyd Wright, designer of Manhattan's spectacular Guggenheim, Architect Johnson was willing to concede that a museum's first function is to display not itself but its art. His simple classical building is essentially a large airy courtyard covered with a coffered plastic skylight and surrounded by a graceful balcony that turns into a second floor. Designed with a careful eye on U.S. art museums' growing tendency to become civic centers, the Utica museum boasts both a theater-in-the-round and a special hideaway for the kids-a room decked out with...
Frank Lloyd Wright once looked with distaste at the sprawl that is Pittsburgh, and gave the city fathers his solemn advice: "Abandon it." Architects with the king-sized imagination of a Wright have always let one corner of the mind dwell on the impossible. Their most grandiose schemes often end up in the wastebasket, either stymied by technology or vetoed by those who regard themselves as more practical (and sometimes are). But the visionary architects go on dreaming of mushroom-shaped houses, glass pyramids and spiral cities. Last week, in a lively show called "Visionary Architecture," Manhattan's Museum...
After denouncing everybody else's skyscrapers, Frank Lloyd Wright in the latter days of his life wished to turn cities into grand parks surrounding a few mile-high office buildings that would lodge the city's entire work force. Each rapier-like 528-story building would have atomic-powered elevators, would accommodate 130,000 people. Philadelphia's Lou Kahn, dramatically ignoring the necessity of rectangular symmetry, modeled a skyscraper that suggests a tottering, concrete Erector set. Other projects offer radical new solutions for transportation and land use: Le Corbusier's plan for a road that...
Master Concept. In enclosing space, Becket shows little of the imagination or pioneering spirit of a Wright or Saarinen. Becket makes no apology, feels that his sort of made-to-order architecture is ideally suited to the varying needs of business. "The one who takes the position that he is primarily a creator and that his services must be sought," he says, "is headed for failure...
...Wright had hoped that the main light in the huge round gallery would come from the glass dome roof. Sweeney installed bright fluorescent lighting. He painted the walls a dazzling white ("Sweeney white-the color of death!" protested Wright), and to overcome the artists' lament that their paintings would look askew because of Wright's sloping "continuous floor." Sweeney devised an ingenious way of displaying his unframed canvases on rods projected from the walls. But for all his innovations, he could never get over the feeling that he was running not a museum but a monument to Wright...