1
The government thought (quite mistakenly) that a new and cosmopolitan architecture might help transcend the country’s bitter racial and ethnic hostilities.
2
It was sometimes permissible to construct a “mono-pitch” roof, a roof with one sloping surface instead of two; and this exception to the rule for worker housing in the 1920s is given devout homage today, on a gigantic scale, in such office towers as the Citicorp Building in New York and Pennzoil Place in Houston.
3
Likewise, in the field of psychology. So many leading Freudian psychoanalysame to the United States (e.g., Heinz Hartmann and Ernst Kris), the United States became the only important center of Freudian psychology in the world. American contributions to psychology, even those well regarded in Europe, such as William James’, were for the next forty years regarded as backward.
4
Edgar Tafel, Apprentice to Genius: Years with Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1979).
5
Robert Venturi, the architect, also ordered one in a pretty fabric in the interest of an “ironic reference.”