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Shelf Life.(Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind)(Review)
Frank Furness (1839-1912) might be called the grandfather of modern American architecture: He taught Louis Sullivan, who in turn taught Frank Lloyd Wright. In Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind (Norton, 273 pp., $45), Michael J. Lewis has written a biography of this irascible character he calls "the architect of the most original buildings in Victorian America." Furness's buildings were dismissed as "grotesque and vulgar" in his time, and Lewis-an art historian and contributor to Commentary and The New Criterion-admits that the ...
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