Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, he asks, did Otto Lilienthal, the Wright Brothers, Santos-Dumont, and a hatful of other pioneer airmen?among them, Igor Sikorsky ?come into a wingless world lusting to fly and apparently equipped with some kind of built-in mental equipment which helped them do so? Sikorsky never goes so far as to conclude that he is an instrument of Divine Providence, but neither can he, as a deeply religious man, avoid-wondering how else to explain some of his own rarer moments of intuition...
...words were in a new collection of Wright's essays (The Future of Architecture; Horizon Press; $7.50), which express a philosophy of building as original as it is vital. Wright early rejected the traditional concept that architecture is mainly a matter of blocks and boxes. His own buildings derive from the organic constructions of nature. Wright once designed an extraordinarily efficient column after studying the structure of morning glories, and his skyscraper now going up in Bartlesville, Okla. is built on the principle of a tree. "The only safe precedent," Wright likes to say, "is principle...
...Wright translated his own basic principles into practice could be seen in a big, retrospective show of photos, plans and models, on display last week in a giant, slab-roofed pavilion -he designed for the purpose on a vacant Manhattan lot adjoining the Guggenheim Museum. If Wright can overcome the objections of New York City's housing authorities (TIME, Aug. 10), a new Guggenheim Museum, shaped in a spiral that expands upward, will rise on the same site next year. By then Wright's show, which has already toured Europe, will be on tour in the Orient. Among...
...Pictures of a Unitarian church built by Wright at Madison, Wis. in 1949-50. Instead of a steeple, it has a steep, triangular roof shaped rather like hands folded in prayer. The triangle, Wright believes, is "the symbol of aspiration." ¶Pictures of a house Wright built in Phoenix last year for one of his sons. Made of concrete blocks, it looks like a snail shell somewhat flattened and supported on stilts. Says Wright: "It is in a citrus-orchard district and the orange trees make the lawn for the house. The slowly rising ramp reveals the surrounding mountains...
...Actress. Ruth Gordon's hit comedy about stagestruck adolescence; with Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, Jean Simmons (TIME...