Elizabeth Gordon and Frank Lloyd Wright
Fascinating. It may just be the pot, but I have to applaud her auto-dealer ploy as a win-win solution to a personal problem.
It appears that she left her Wisconsin job for New York just before the Fellowship was established. Where was she located in Wisconsin ? Would she have heard of Wright that early ?
The reactionary screed which opens the piece is explained further on by what preceded that outburst: Mr Wright being remarkably ungracious to his young postwar followers. If a leader doesn't have followers, is he or she really a leader -- one wants to ask. Whether or not "imitation is flattery" is beside the point, as I see it; it is illogical to decry the effects of one's influence on others while claiming that the nation needs better architecture and that one has the winning model.
SDR
It appears that she left her Wisconsin job for New York just before the Fellowship was established. Where was she located in Wisconsin ? Would she have heard of Wright that early ?
The reactionary screed which opens the piece is explained further on by what preceded that outburst: Mr Wright being remarkably ungracious to his young postwar followers. If a leader doesn't have followers, is he or she really a leader -- one wants to ask. Whether or not "imitation is flattery" is beside the point, as I see it; it is illogical to decry the effects of one's influence on others while claiming that the nation needs better architecture and that one has the winning model.
SDR
While we're into architecture as sociological phenomenon, here's something from today's paper about the mortgage interest deduction and its effect on housing access in America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/maga ... &te=1&_r=0
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/maga ... &te=1&_r=0