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发表于1分钟前回复 :Frank Lloyd Wright is America's greatest-ever architect. However, few people know about the Welsh roots that shaped his life and world-famous buildings. Now, leading Welsh architect Jonathan Adams sets off across America to explore Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces for himself. Along the way, he uncovers the tempestuous life story of the man behind them and the significance of his radical family background.In a career spanning seven decades, Frank Lloyd Wright built over 500 buildings, and changed the face of modern architecture: Fallingwater, the house over the waterfall, has been called the greatest house of the 20th century; the spiralling Guggenheim Museum in New York reinvented the art museum; the concrete Unity Temple was the first truly modern building in the world. But the underlying philosophy that links all Wright's buildings is as important as anything he built.Those ideas were rooted in the Unitarian religion of Frank Lloyd Wright's mother. Anna Lloyd Jones was born and raised near Llandysul in west Wales and migrated to America with her family in 1844, most likely to escape religious persecution. Her son, Frank, was raised in a Unitarian community in Wisconsin, a small piece of Wales in America. The values he absorbed there were based on the sanctity of nature, the importance of hard work, and the need to question convention and defy it where necessary. Wright's architecture was shaped by, and expressed, these beliefs.Frank Lloyd Wright set out to create a new American architecture for a new country. He built his own lifelong home in the valley he was raised in, and he named it after an ancient Welsh bard called Taliesin. It was the scene of many adventures - and a horrific crime. In 1914, a servant at Taliesin ran amok and killed seven people including Wright's partner, Mamah Cheney, and her two young children.Wright rebuilt his home and went on to marry a Montenegrin woman, Olgivanna Milanoff, some 30 years younger than him. It was Olgivanna who struck upon the idea that saved Wright's career after the Wall Street Crash and personal scandal laid it low. She decided that her husband should take on apprentices and that the apprentices should pay for the privilege. The Taliesin Fellowship had a hands-on approach, with apprentices often building extensions to Wright's own houses, labouring and cooking for him. Somehow it worked, lasting for decades and nurturing hundreds of young talents.Frank Lloyd Wright died in 1959 aged 91 while working on his final masterpiece, New York's incomparable Guggenheim Museum. He had been born in the wake of the American civil war, the son of a pioneer, and died a television celebrity, in the space age. He is buried in the shadow of Taliesin, alongside his Welsh ancestors.A 150 years after his birth, Jonathan Adams argues that Frank Lloyd Wright is now a vitally important figure who can teach us how to build for a better world. Wright believed in what he called organic architecture; buildings that grace the landscape, express an idea of how to live and respond to individual needs. This bespoke approach - a philosophy, not a style - puts him at the heart of modern architectural thinking.
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发表于1分钟前回复 :1942年的冀中平原、日本宪兵汉奸、伪警察等数百人包围了东王庄,敌人架起机枪疯狂扫射,横尸遍野、惨不忍睹。闻讯赶来的武工队员们按捺不住心中的怒火,纷纷向队长魏强请战,为乡亲们报仇。魏强率领武工队化装成伪警察进城,巧妙地活捉了中闾镇伪警察所所长哈巴狗,并将其带回东王庄准备公审。趁人们欢庆中,哈巴狗跑回保定城,向夜袭队长刘魁胜报告,却见刘魁胜正在调戏自己的老婆小红云。哈巴狗给刘魁胜一个嘴巴,刘魁胜反咬一口,诬哈巴狗私通武工队。为了保住命,哈巴狗只好把老婆让给了刘魁胜。保定南关火车战长小本次郎也对哈巴狗老婆小红云垂涎三尺,他派段长万长顺去请小红云到站上说书,小红云不肯屈服,用剪刀割腕自杀身亡。刘魁胜对日本人敢怒而不敢言,魏强利用他们的矛盾,夜袭车站将小本次郎和段长万长顺杀死。松田将他们的死归咎于刘魁胜,杀死了他,并命哈巴狗任夜袭队长。最后武工队扫平了侵袭队,击毙了哈巴狗,又炸毁了宪兵队总部为乡亲们报了仇,大长了人民抗日的士气。