Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where Wright designed soaring, poetic buildings that smote the eye and branded their creator's name in the memory, Walter Adolf Gropius was cogent...
...Architecture, he believed, had to be a collaborative process, with the architect as natural leader of a team including manufacturers of building materials, artists, scientists and sociologists. This was of course contrary to the old idea of the architect as solitary creator and was hard to accept. Frank Lloyd Wright, a noted individualist, once snapped: "Gropius, I suppose that if you were planning to have a baby, you would turn to a neighbor for collaboration." "I would," replied Gropius, "if my neighbor was a woman...
Passengers have hair-curling stories about many of the little lines, including engine failures, landings with the landing gear retracted, and even running out of gas. Recently, a Cleveland-bound Wright Air Lines flight out of Detroit barely made it across Lake Erie to a safe if silent emergency landing in a field in Canada; the pilot had neglected to check the fuel before taking off. Denver's Aspen Airways navigates around 14,000-ft. mountain peaks while flying at 13,500 ft. without benefit of cabin pressure or oxygen (except on request). Quite understandably, the line bills itself...
Such shoestring operators are responsible for most of the third level's harum-scarum reputation, but things get a bit dicey at times even on the better commuter lines. Cleveland-based Wright and TAG airlines of Detroit accounted for all of 29 ground alerts at Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport during one recent twelve-month period. Eight of the alerts involved closing the airport and rolling out the fire engines, though there were no accidents...
...machine had arrived with its challenge. With their own individual talents, Gropius' only rivals--Le Corbusier, Wright, Mies van der Rohe--responded. But only Gropius confronted the machine with an equally imposing voice. Only he replied in terms of the mechanistic, in terms that could grasp for beauty at the same time as they captured function...