The s.c. Johnson company became in 1917 the first American firm to share profits with its workers. Thanks to Glo-Coat, a self-polishing floor wax product, it successfully surpassed the Depression of the early thirties, and Herbert F Johnson, Jr., gra
Wright in the thirties came up with a new method of building houses integrated into his urban conception of Broadacre City. He called them ‘Usonian houses’ and designed them specially for the new middle class that could still not afford large expendi
Edgar j. kaufmann was the owner of a prosperous department store chain in the Pittsburgh area. His son, working as one of Wright's apprentices at the Taliesin Fellowship, convinced him to fund the construction of the Broadacre City model for a nation
The robie House is the culmination of an entire era in the career and life of Frank Lloyd Wright. His built work of the two decades flanking 1900 sufficed to earn him a place in history as a great architect; fortunately, he still had energy and ideas
A few weeks after leaving Louis Sullivan's office, Frank Lloyd Wright was already working on his first commission. He was only 26. The Winslow House - like all works that constitute a leap forward - was controversial in its novelty. The standard thi
Just as the annals of twentieth-century architecture began drawing to their close, a thrilling and largely unexpected denouement was provided by Frank Gehry. The completion of his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao of 1991-1997 in the Basque country’s largest
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments
