Category Archives: Tangential

[Off-topic] Snow Day

February 1, 2008 – 12:04 pm
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[Tangential] Garden City map

January 20, 2008 – 9:54 am

The endlessly fascinating weblog Strange Maps has posted a map drawn by Sir Ebenezer Howard, founder of the Garden City movement that influenced the City Beautiful movement in the US that Daniel Burnham epitomized, first in his design for the Columbian World’s Fair and then his 1909 Plan of Chicago

[Burnham’s work even influenced the […]

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[Tangental] Since you are already going that way . . .

January 20, 2008 – 8:58 am

Are there any readers who live in, work in or are going to Hyde Park and would be willing to do me a favor? It’s not related to Frank Lloyd Wright, but I would give you an excuse to walk by the Robie House.

I hate to ask, but it’s a Gabe thing. Send me […]

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Paleo-Future

January 12, 2008 – 8:39 am

Sorry, still no Frank Lloyd Wright news.

But, while you are waiting for something to happen, you should visit the weblog Paleo-Future — “A look into the future that never was”. The blog posts images and articles from the late Nineteenth Century through the 1990s that mis-predict the future — a future generally full of personal […]

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[Non-Sequitur] Bored, and in charge of a graphics program

January 8, 2008 – 7:18 pm

Slightly more than scribbled-on-the-back-of-a-napkin, but less than a concrete plan.

The wife thinks it’s pretentious, and I’m half convinced she’s right. Not that fear of pretentiousness has ever stopped me.

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[Tangential] Oscar Niemeyer in the NY Times

December 28, 2007 – 8:22 am

My first favorite architect, thanks to my 3rd Grade Social Studies textbook section on Brasilia, was Oscar Niemeyer (hey, it was the 1970s).

NIcolai Ourousoff, architecture critic for the ??Times?, has an article on the career the Brazilian architect.

In Brasília, a city that rose out of a savanna in the span of four years, he created […]

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Frank Lloyd Wright and Big Ten Football

November 11, 2007 – 8:37 am

Did anyone notice?

University of Illinois (113 Wright sites) unexpectedly beat Ohio St. (12 Wright sites)

The University of Wisconsin Badgers (Madison: 12 Wright sites) unexpectedly defeated the University of Michigan Wolverines (Ann Arbor: 1 Wright house).

Admittedly, as a Michigan fan (and with a resume or two floating around UM’s Human Resources office) I’m disappointed, but I […]

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[Because I fund this site out of my own pocket, sometimes you have to put up with my crazy obsessions]

November 1, 2007 – 7:39 am

The British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles

Send them back.

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[About as off-topic as possible] New Acropolis Museum

November 1, 2007 – 7:34 am

The New Acropolis Museum was opened to journalists recently, and the architecture critics for the NY Times and Time made the trip to Athens. The old Acropolis Study Center was one of my favorite small museums in Athens, and it is sad to see it bigafied, but the new museum is jaw-droppngly awesome. (Take a […]

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Your name in 72 pt. Helvetica

October 19, 2007 – 8:51 am

You know, if any would like The Frank Lloyd Newsblog to become the YOURCOMPANYNAMEHERE Newsblog, it could be arranged — I have now been unemployed for three weeks, and it’s getting to me (not to my wife though, the list of house chores grows longer by the day). Really, I work cheap.

Note, this offer is […]

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