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Use, Form and Art
Pokorny, Elizabeth | January 14, 1956 issue

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The article focuses on the book "An American Architecture," by Frank Lloyd Wright. In a time when the prophets and consciences of people warn them that they are endangered as whole men by narrow specialization, a compulsion to conform, the run-away machine and a rusting materialism, it is strange that one of the most non-conforming champions of the human spirit is receiving a popular acclaim bordering, as it snowballs, on adulation. This man is Frank Lloyd Wright, the greatest living architect. He has given form to an architecture which borrows its inspiration, not from European precedents but from the nature of the local, twentieth-century materials at hand, and from the locality and site itself.

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AMERICAN Architecture, An (Book); WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959; ARCHITECTS; ARCHITECTURE, American; MATERIALISM; PHILOSOPHY
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