Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Wright Webster...
Charles Dyer Wright...
...filial feeling. According to John's earliest memories (Oak Park, Ill. at the turn of the century): "Papa liked vaudeville! Vaudeville liked Papa!-Papa designed most of Mama's dresses. Most of Mama's dresses were brown!" The first curtain came down with a rush when Wright tired of the role of Papa and walked out on his wife and six children "overnight-he didn't even say goodbye...
John quotes a passage from Viollet-le-Duc which well describes Frank Lloyd Wright's ambition, and to a considerable extent, his achievement. Wrote Viollet-le-Duc: "The leaf of a shrub, a flower, an insect-all have style; because they grow, are developed, and maintain their existence according to laws essentially logical. We can subtract nothing from a flower, for each part of its organism expresses a function. . . . Proceed as nature does in her works, and you will be able to invest with style all that your brain conceives...
With building after building, Wright had proved that it is possible to imitate nature's logic and economy, if not her wanton extravagance, in architecture. His latest proof, announced this month, is a tower laboratory for Johnson's Wax in Racine, Wis. Its 15-story lab is practically all window; all its heating, plumbing and servicing is done through a central mast, from which it is suspended, much like Buckminster Fuller's circular aluminum house (TIME, March 25). It will adjoin the office building Wright designed in 1938, which is held up by columns built like morning...