Just saw this in the New York Times. I supposed they’d also destroy a Picasso painting if it was blocking a great view. (No, that reason actually has an aesthetic basis. They’d destroy a Picasso if it was blocking a great view that they could charge a lot of money to look through.)
Wright Masterwork Is Seen in a New Light: A Fight for Its Life
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Published: October 2, 2012
It’s hard to say which is more startling. That a developer in Phoenix could threaten — by Thursday, no less — to knock down a 1952 house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Or that the house has until now slipped under the radar, escaping the attention of most architectural historians, even though it is one of Wright’s great works, a spiral home for his son David.
Read the rest here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/arts/design/frank-lloyd-wright-house-in-phoenix-faces-bulldozers.html?smid=pl-share
Screenshot taken from NYT. Click image for link to slideshow.
What, you may ask, does this have to do with writing? And why do I care about this? Because, because, because . . .
ph.d. in creative writing 