Daddy Frank Lloyd Wright and The Curse of Sex
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In the comic book ‘The Women’, acclaimed novelist T. C. Boyle turns his attention to the life and loves of celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright, enlightening human dramas and illuminating both history and American culture with imaginative energy.
Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T.C. Boyle now turns his fictional sights on an even more colorful and outlandish character: Frank Lloyd Wright. Boyle’s account of Wright’s life, as told through the experiences of the four women who loved him, blazes with his trademark wit and invention.
Wright’s life was one long howling struggle against the bonds of convention, whether aesthetic, social, moral, or romantic. He never did what was expected and despite the overblown scandals surrounding his amours and very public divorces and the financial disarray that dogged him throughout his career, he never let anything get in the way of his larger-than-life appetites and visions. Wright’s triumphs and defeats were always tied to the women he loved: the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff; the passionate Southern belle Maud Miriam Noel; the spirited Mamah Cheney, tragically killed; and his young first wife, Kitty Tobin. In The Women, T.C. Boyle’s protean voice captures these very different women and, in doing so, creates a masterful ode to the creative life in all its complexity and grandeur. Source: BarnesAndNoble.com
Die hard Frank Lloyd Wright fans can purchase ‘The Women’ (Hardcover) from amazon now for $16.77.
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Architectural Styles of Contemporary Universities
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You know, the last paragraph on the architecture style of universities is sort of true – “… to convince alumni and parents they’re getting their money’s worth.”
A good learning environment is important, which is something sorely lacking in a number of Malaysia’s local universities – lousy facilities, bias lecturers, bias system based on the colour of your skin. What amazed me is the unreasonable idea by the Dean of university with petty stuff such as dress code, for instant male students are required to wear long sleeves, leather shoe, and long pants in XXX ‘university of I translated your phd research from english to the malay language and claimed it as mine’.
They are so preoccupation with the idea of dress code to the extend that a private university mooted the same idea, citing that this would improve the students discipline and further enhance the quality of education. Here is an interesting story I heard from a friend of mine, according to her, a female student in the Islamic International University in Malaysia was told to dress decently according to the Muslim dress code:
Dean: ‘Why are you not wearing your head scarf?’
Female student: ‘It is just too hot and humid in Malaysia.’
Dean: ‘Do you know that hell is hotter?’
Anyway, while I was reading about the history of Gothic architecture and gargoyles, I stumble upon some really interesting facts. Gothic architecture was called “French Style” (Opus francigenum) by the Germans, this is actually an insult because back in the good old days ‘Goth’ meant rude, barbarian or barbaric, and it certainly does because the Renaissance in Italy gave birth to the new age classical architecture.
The Renaissance architects, who disliked the style, started calling it “Gothic” and the name stuck.
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