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Be one of those pillars that stands up for our democracy in those brutal, harsh moments. Thank you for sharing with us. Thank you vgood morning. Thank you all for coming. Thank you for coming. Did i. I think im on my way there, but i. There the United States has produced two extraordinary, influential major architects, both named frank. This is not frank lloyd wright. This is the other one i didnt meet frank lloyd wright. I wanted to, but i in im sure you all know that frank won the pritzker prize for architecture which is the the award of the of the design. Well that was in 1989 before you were born. Theres evelyn de broad. And just to just to set i, i want to read to you the citation that was written at that time. Its very short. So only seven sentences. But i need to set the stage a little bit before i read it. In 1989, the and i should also preface this by saying im not an architecture critic nor an art architecture historian, ....
Be one of those pillars that stands up for our democracy in those brutal, harsh moments. Thank you for sharing with us. Thank you vergood morning. Thank you all for coming. Thank you for coming. Did i. I think im on my way there, but i. There the United States has produced two extraordinary, influential major architects, both named frank. This is not frank lloyd wright. This is the other one i didnt meet frank lloyd wright. I wanted to, but i in im sure you all know that frank won the pritzker prize for architecture which is the the award of the of the design. Well that was in 1989 before you were born. Theres evelyn de broad. And just to just to set i, i want to read to you the citation that was written at that time. Its very short. So only seven sentences. But i need to set the stage a little bit before i read it. In 1989, the and i should also preface this by saying im not an architecture critic nor an art architecture historian ....
This is wright. This is the other one i didnt wright. I wanted to, but i in im sure you all know that frank won the pritzker prize for architecture which is the the award of of the design. In 1989 before you were born. Thereevelyn de broand just to just to seto you the citation that its very short. So only seven sentences. Stage a little bit before i read it. In 1989, and i should also preface this by saying im not an architecture critic nor an historian, so i may get some. Oh, well, im going to leave. Before the pritzker prize was announced re profession, i think you could say, was in some the there was an exhibition that had been mounted at the museum of modern art in 1979 by drexler, calledformation gardens in modern architecture. It was controversial, partly because drexler, whod been at moma v serving curator in the history of the of the muhe basically did an exhibition which said modernism in architecture is dead. It is over. Some agreed. Some people didnt agree. There was fistfi ....
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Century, i talk about the hipsters and the beatles. I get two figures of the cast of Allen Ginsberg and jack kerouac who were central, biographical elements in this book. And talk about Timothy Leary and a whole array of characters who course through the decade of the 1960s and think of the counterculture of the 1960s when we think of the hippies and participants in one capacity or another and they were individuals who were disenchanted with matters as they were in some fashion, concerned about jim crow and its continuance, they were deeply concerned about the war in vietnam, two of this when pillars in a matter of speaking and they were also concerned about elemental issues, family relationships and personal dealings and sexuality and consciousness, rationality, there was this coalescing of forces, demographic, economic, literary, cultural, some political in nature that welde ....