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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 :单身汉Barry Egan(亚当·桑德勒 Adam Sandler 饰)经营着一家小工厂,生活在七个姐姐压力下的他会不时地哭泣、用暴力来发泄情绪,乱砸东西。这天他在路上捡回了一个被人丢弃的小钢琴,还认识了一个女子。原来这个女子正是他的一个姐姐想要介绍给他认识的Lena Leonard(艾米丽·沃森 Emily Watson 饰),两人相约改天一起吃晚餐。夜里寂寞无聊的Barry拨打了一个色情电话,和电话里的女郎聊的不亦乐乎,却也惹上了麻烦:女郎付不起房租跟他借钱被拒绝后,便不断打电话骚扰他。Barry和Lena第一次约会后,两人情投意合。然而当Barry回到家的时候,却遭到了一伙人的打劫,原来是经营色情电话公司的Dean(菲利普·塞默·霍夫曼 Philip Seymour Hoffman 饰)派来的。当Lena在夏威夷出差的时候,Barry更破天荒地去夏威夷寻找她,两人确立了恋爱关系。当那伙人再次开车撞了Barry的车时,Lena受伤了,Barry终于爆发了......