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...Fort Dearborn plan (named after the early American fort on the city's site) was largely the work of Architect Nathaniel A. Owings, of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and Realtor Arthur Rubloff, developer of the sprawling Evergreen Park shopping center on Chicago's southwest side and the postwar "magnificent mile" on the city's famed Michigan Avenue...
...great pink-tinted palazzi, decorated with balconies and frills of cake-icing beauty and delicacy. Last week Venetians and Venice-lovers were engaged in a heated esthetic and sentimental wrangle with the advocates of progress and modern architecture. The issue: a proposal to construct a house designed by U.S. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright on a curve of the Grand Canal...
...started in 1952 when a wealthy Italian contractor named Paolo Masieri commissioned Architect Wright to design a building as a memorial to Masieri's son Angelo, killed in an automobile accident in the U.S. The new palazzo was to be used as a study center and quarters for architectural students. A site was chosen on the Grand Canal between the magnificent 15th century Ca' Foscari, once a residence of the doges, and the 16th century Palazzo Balbi. The house which Wright's palazzo would replace is a dingy brownstone residence...
...Arizona home last week, Architect Wright himself dismissed the opposition to his building as the work of "unenlightened sentimentalists" - mostly tourists. Said he: "I love Venice and in designing the palazzo, I have tried to show this love for the culture of Venice and not intrude on it . . . As an architect, I hope Venice will be able to save itself from the tourists...
MACHINE-FOR-LIVING "MODERN" (so named because France's famed Architect Le Corbusier once said: "The house is a machine for living") tries to be functional, but only succeeds in destroying privacy. "The 'living area' becomes an echoing cavern reverberating with every sound from children's yelling to the vacuum cleaner's whine. The open serving hatch [becomes] a television screen, showing a disheveled would-be functionalist trying to cope with a multiplicity of electric contrivances that report their broccoli and onions way beyond their allotted zone." The dining room "where families and friends...