by Ian Volner
Washington Square 62–63
Watchung Mountains 98–99
Watkin, David 48
We Have Never Been Modern (Latour) ix
Wesselmann, Tom 64
Wexner Center for the Arts 172–73
White, Robert Carey 100
White City 68–69
Whites 108, 225 note 104
Four Days in May and, 225 note 91
Krier and, 134
Le Corbusier and, 118
UCLA School of Architecture and Design and, 154–55
Whitney, David 167–68
Whitney Museum of American Art plate 45, 172, 190
Ad Hoc Committee to Save the Whitney and, 165
aging structure of, 158
Community Board and, 175
Armstrong and, 158–59
Breuer and, 158–59, 164–65, 175, 179–80, 189
controversy over, 165–66
design competition for, 158
diptychs and, 164–65, 175
Gwathmey Siegel and, 158
importance of as client, 158–59, 175
Koolhaas and, 183
Landmarks Commission and, 165–66, 175
long schedule for, 159
as Metropolitan Museum of Art annex, 180
new scheme for, plate 44, 175
project cancellation of, 179–80
proposal presentation of, plate 43, 164–65
Scott Brown and, 158
Scully and, 165
third proposal for, 175, 179
Venturi and, 158
Wigley, Mark 183
Williams, Ted 173
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim 73–74
Wiseman, Carter 147
Wittenborn, George 106
Wolfe, Tom 154, 205
Woman with a Blue Hat (Picasso) 175
World’s Columbian Exposition 68, 178
World War I 54, 74
World War II 29, 36–37, 43, 47, 74
World War Memorial 29, 37
Wounded Warrior Project plate 63, 203
Wright, Frank Lloyd xii, 105, 139
background of, 39
furniture and, 62, 150
horizontal volumes and, 47
Jencks and, 185
Johnson Wax Headquarters and, 46, 62
Meier and, 64
midwestern roots of, 39
Mies and, 65
Modernist interiors and, 105
original ornament of, 47
as philosopher-king, 39
popularity of, 148
SOM and, 65
Wundram, Edward 140, 145, 227 note 74
XV Triennale di Milano 108
Zurich 77
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Peter Aaron © OTTO Archive: plates 21, 22, 42 Steven Brooke Studios for MGA&D (printed with the permission of the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort): plate 47 Steven Brooke Studios for MGA&D: plate 48 Peter Carl: page 114 Eisenman Architects: pages vii–viii, 107 © Fondation Le Corbusier / ARS: page 55 Scott Frances © OTTO Archive: page 87 (bottom) Coroson Hirschfeld, from Jayne Merkel, In Its Place: The Architecture of Carl Strauss and Ray Roush (Cincinnati, OH: The Contemporary Arts Center, 1984): page 43 Coroson Hirschfeld, from Jayne Merkel, Michael Graves & Riverbend: A Summer Pavilion for the Cincinnati Orchestra (Cincinnati, OH: The Contemporary Arts Center, 1987): page 50 Illinois Institute of Technology’s University Archives: page 45 Indianapolis Star (originally published on February 17, 1924): page 16 Indianapolis Star (originally published on November 11, 1927): page 19 Indianapolis Star (originally published on March 2, 1931): page 21 Indiana Historical Society: pages 17, 28 Timothy Hursley: plate 51 Scott Hyde for MGA&D: plate 33 T. Kitajima © GA Photographers: plate 18 Léon Krier: page 131 Robert Lautman for MGA&D: plate 55 Laurin McCracken © MGA&D: plate 15 Norman McGrath: plate 26 Metropolitan Home © Meredith Corporation: page 156 Richard Meier & Partners Architects: page 87 (top) MGA&D, printed with the permission of the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort: plate 46 David Mohney for MGA&D: page 83 Douglass Paschall and William Taylor for MGA&D: plates 38, 39, 41 Tim Street-Porter for MGA&D: plate 32 Stryker: plates 57–59 Tigerman McCurry Architects: page 141 Leandro Viana: page 206 Ian Volner: page 169 Tom Yee / House & Garden, April 1973 © Condé Nast: plate 14
photo credit: Éva Calon
IAN VOLNER has contributed articles on architecture, design, and urbanism to the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, Harper’s, Architectural Digest, and the New Yorker online, and is a contributing editor at Architect and Surface. He is the author of This Is Frank Lloyd Wright.
