A Design Crit by Frank Lloyd Wright (Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine, 1947)
When the architectural community howled in protest upon hearing that the firm of Wallace Harrison (1895 – 1981) was commissioned to design the United Nations Center in 1947, the editors of SCRIPT MAGAZINE dashed-off to ask Frank Lloyd Wright to pick up his quill and ink-up his arguments against the project.
Wright, a bitter foe of skyscrapers and cities, voiced his disapproval in the attached article. Those who are familiar with the high esteem in which Frank Lloyd Wright held himself will not be surprised that he referred to himself entirely in third person throughout this entire article!
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