Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wright House, Wrong City...
...Mayor of Venice surrenders to the argument that the proposed building on the Grand Canal to be designed by Frank Lloyd Wright will deface the architectural heritage in Venice [TIME, March 22], he surrenders to the principle which makes a city a museum piece and drains vitality from it ... Was the Palazzo Vendramini forbidden because, in style, it did not resemble the Ca d'Oro? Was the Church of Santa Maria della Salute forbidden because it did not resemble San Marco...
...recently released sketch of Architect Wright's palazzo (and a view of the building it would replace...
...definite cleavage seems to be taking place between the mentality of a public, and a Congress, which was nursed on tales of Columbus, Edison, the Wright brothers, etc., and the mentality of the scientists themselves, who can hardly lose sight of the enormous preponderance of unpublicized pipe-dreams. Since all the more romantic advance of science are found in retrospect to have been impeded by forces of malice and darkness, it is perhaps not surprising to see some present-day pessimists accused as traitors or, at best, as imbeciles. One consequence may well be a trend towards blind sponsorship...
...Arizona home last week, Architect Wright himself dismissed the opposition to his building as the work of "unenlightened sentimentalists" - mostly tourists. Said he: "I love Venice and in designing the palazzo, I have tried to show this love for the culture of Venice and not intrude on it . . . As an architect, I hope Venice will be able to save itself from the tourists...