Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speak in regard to two men who are not around to speak for themselves? There was no occasion to "talk" my father into building Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater [Dec. 11], now in the care of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. My role was to make Wright and my father acquainted, some two years before Fallingwater was designed. From there on, Wright's architecture needed no sales talk, and my father's quality as a client has been appreciatively described by Wright in print. Thank you for your good words about the Aalto room...
...Grady Gammage Auditorium on the campus of Arizona State University at Tempe is a tribute to the determination of the university's late president Grady Gammage that Arizona should have at least one public building by the late great Frank Lloyd Wright, who made...
...exhibit was called the "Save Memorial Drive Arts Show." Though the moral and political effort here is unassailable, the art was depressing. A Raoul Dufy watercolor stood out (any time that happens, you are in serious trouble). My preference was for a work called "Trading Ship" by Nielson Wright, who must be, one would guess, about eleven. He showed up his elders, who proved once again that realistic painting can never be truly realistic; nothing here recalled the sometime holiday mood of the riverbank as well as a Miro abstraction might have...
Skyscrapered Manhattan, taken as a whole, is one of man's most fascinating architectural conglomerations. But when it comes to singling out individual masterworks by the greats of modern architecture, the pickings are slim. Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe get only one building each (the Guggenheim Museum and the Seagram Building); Marcel Breuer's first structure (the new Whitney Museum) is only now going up; and Pier Luigi Nervi is relegated to a bus station at the north end of the island. Last week Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, one of the acknowledged deans of modern...
Spaghetti Reeds. There might have been no room at all for Aalto but for the enthusiasm of Edgar Kaufmann Jr., a Pittsburgh department-store magnate's son, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright and talked his father into building Wright's famous over-the-waterfall house at Bear Run, Pa. Kaufmann, who has an equal enthusiasm for Aalto, offered the Finn a commission to create a reception and conference room of his own for the I.I.E...