Archives for August 26, 2019

“A Conversation with Frank Lloyd Wright: Sixty Years of Living Architecture,” originally telecast by NBC on May 17, 1953 on Wisdom, a series of interviews with notable figures in the arts, politics, and the humanities. The interviewer is Hugh Downs:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“Penny’s eyes, too, kept straying to the window; the window of the outer office looked northeast over London, and, sitting at her desk, Penny could see far over the roofs to the thin green skyline of Hampstead and Highgate. A new office block hid the turrets and towers of Westminster, but the campanile of the cathedral could be seen overtopped by one of the new office buildings. Something happened to people’s minds when man learned to build offices higher than spires, thought Penny.”

Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede