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...jumble of diagrams left non-technical gallerygoers wondering what most of it meant. But for those who could tell a cantilever from a truss, it recorded as exciting a body of architectural thinking as has come from the brain of anyone since Michelangelo. Regarded by many as the greatest architect of the 20th Century, Frank Lloyd Wright is conceded even by skeptics to have one of the most restless and imaginative minds the art of architecture has ever known. Architect Wright began designing functional buildings in 1893, fathered the whole international modern architecture movement. In his 48 years of architecture...
...Much of Architect Wright's early work looked familiar to last week's visitors, because nearly every apartment-house designer today uses ideas that Wright thought up more than a generation ago. More startling were designs of buildings erected in the past ten years like the Johnson Wax factory at Racine, Wis., whose flimsy-looking mushroom pillars (broad at the top and narrow at the base) involved a brand-new contribution to engineering...
City-Planner Wright, like many another architect, thinks that the bombing of Europe's cities is likely to be a blessing in disguise. "After all," says he, "what is St. Paul's? An imitation of St. Peter's in Rome. I don't think anyone will miss Wren's work much. Broadacres is going to England as soon as there is a chance for it to be shown there. This will be immensely beneficial to England...
...Washington who was just as anxious to get rid of Congress as Congress was anxious to leave was Capitol Architect David Lynn. Since 1938, Architect Lynn has been expecting the Capitol roofs to fall in. The 120-ton ceiling over the House, the 90-ton ceiling over the Senate, constructed of ornamental glass and wrought iron, hang from cast-iron trusses. Tests have shown that some of the trusses have shifted as much as an inch and a half under the stress of snows, winds, years...
After two years of talking about it, Congress last June appropriated $585,000 to fix the roof. While Congressmen snoozed, debated, passed bills and paid no further heed to the danger hanging heavy over their heads, Architect Lynn anxiously waited for a chance to move in and erect temporary steel props. That job will take five or six weeks. If Congress ever decided to stay away for six months, he would tear off the whole roof, build...