Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current retrospective show at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum is the meeting ground for the ideas of three dead giants: Solomon Guggenheim, the copper-tycoon tastemaker; Frank Lloyd Wright, the architect; and Vasily Kandinsky, the father of abstract expressionism. For patrons making the spiral descent into the museum's terrazzo maelstrom to view the largest collection of Kandinsky oils and watercolors ever assembled, it is almost as if this were the event the three men had had in mind all along...
...would have pleased Guggenheim, who built his nonobjective collection around Kandinsky. It would have brought a wry smile to Wright, who knew that crowds would first flock into the Guggenheim Museum only to see what Wright had wrought but would eventually come to see a show perfectly suited to its chambered-nautilus setting. And surely it would have delighted Kandinsky, who once wrote: "I would like above all an exhibit as comprehensive as possible; quantity aids the discovery of inner meanings...
...applaud your magazine for the great tribute you have paid to Minoru Yamasaki [Jan. 18] by adding him to your previous selections of Distinguished Architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Stone and Le Corbusier. And thank you for placing it under Art, where architecture belongs, as it is and always has been a fine art. Mies van der Rohe and Bunshaft come under engineering and IBM machines. And I. M. Pei belongs under water...
...Living explores the quirks and comforts of living in contemporary architecture. Our coverage has ranged from palaces to apartments, from skyscrapers to chapels. Over the years, TIME covers have covered the top newsmakers of the field, from Ralph Adams Cram, the Gothic worshiper, back in 1926. through Frank Lloyd Wright in 1938, to this week's cover on Minoru Yamasaki...
...designers have come up with an unusual configuration for the Viggen. To obtain both maximum efficiency at full throttle aloft and the slow landing speed needed for the short makeshift runways, Saab Chief Designer Erik Bratt, 46, turned to a design used at the time of the Wright brothers, but seldom since. Bratt has placed a canard-a nose wing with adjustable flaps-in front of the Viggen's main delta wing. The canard will help the Viggen make tighter turns-especially at supersonic speeds-and will slow it rapidly for landings...