Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lightweights will also have to beat Navy to cop their fourth straight Joseph Wright Trophy. The lightweights' only loss this year was to the Middies, who broke the Crimson's 32 victory streak at the same time...
...House is sensitive about its pocketbook prerogative, and for a while last week the debate was hot and heavy. Texan Wright Patman, floor manager for the bill, hit at the opposition's weak spot: a nay vote would mean a decision against helping the economically depressed. "If you vote against it," he warned, "there will be no depressed areas bill this session." In vain, Republican Leader Charles Halleck argued that the bill could always be sent back to conference for change in its financing method. Cried he: "I do not think the gentleman should be inclined to scare people...
Corbu's career has been equally full of paradox. He has put up about 75 buildings (Frank Lloyd Wright built 500, Christopher Wren nearly 150). The French government has yet to commission him to design so much as a school or a hospital, and the first Le Corbusier building in the U.S.-a $1,500,000 Visual Arts Center at Harvard-is only now getting started. He began as the architectural prophet of the machine age, the poet of the mass-produced. Yet his recent buildings in India are in a sense almost handmade. He was all logic...
...Louis Sullivan had long since pioneered the skyscraper, and his famous "Form follows function" was the slogan of a new "democratic architecture" that wanted to do away with classic façades, which had nothing to do with a modern building's purpose. His young associate, Frank Lloyd Wright, was already famous for low-slung geometric prairie houses that were so carefully wedded to the landscape that building and nature seemed one. In Germany, 28-year-old Walter Gropius, freshly graduated from Peter Behrens' studio, had put up his steel-and-glass Fagus factory, which was the most...
Captivated Audience. As Corbu built, he also wrote. In the U.S., Frank Lloyd Wright thundered his contempt for the French "painter and pamphleteer," but one by one, young architects were captivated by him. "There were no teachers to teach us the new architecture," says the Chinese-American architect. I. M. Pei, "so we turned to Corbu's books and these were responsible for half our education." In Greece, a young student named Constantinas Doxiadis, who was to become famous in his own land, got a Corbu book as a gift on Christmas Eve in 1932. "I glanced through...