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The current show at the Heinz Architectural Center, [Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.]: Renewing the Legacy, suggests otherwise: Appreciating the richness of Wright's work does not mean being subservient to it. Focusing on designs surrounding two Wright masterpieces, the Darwin D. Martin House in Buffalo, N.Y., and the H.C. Price Company Office Tower and Apartments in Bartlesville, Okla., this exhibit demonstrates that Wright's accomplishments are still considerable and imposing, but that they can bring out the best in today's architectural avant garde.
The seemingly simple approach of reversing Wright's architectural characteristics [Toshiko Mori] achieves with complex subtlety and refinement. Where the Martin house is almost overbearingly complex, Mori's pavilion is restrained. Where Wright's architecture is heavy, Mori's is visually and physically light. Her inverted roof form literally turns Wright's vocabulary on its head, but only as a culminating feature on a rich architectural showcase that depends also on her characteristically precise details.See the full content of this document
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All the Wright Moves
A FEW WEEKS AGO, architect Edgar Tafel returned to Fallingwater to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the supremely iconic home's design. Tafel, admittedly not the great design talent that his mentor was, still has had a long an...
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