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Dying to Get In
Daniel DelRe
05/02/2005
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 Lead architect Anthony Puttnam studied directly under Wright during the 1950s. He is a principal at Taliesin Architects, the firm established in 1953 to continue Wright’s style of architecture. “We achieved the effect Mr. Wright would have wanted—the crypts scale the hill, looking up toward the sky and beyond,” Puttnam muses. Dispenza notes that the mausoleum blends well with the cemetery’s landscaping. “Its walls are the conifers surrounding it, and its ceiling is the sky,” he beams. The monolith that embellishes the site boasts Wright’s own description of the mausoleum: “. . . a burial facing the open sky . . . the whole could not fail of noble effect.”
Puttnam is building two more of Wright’s unfinished works: a filling station and a boathouse. Both structures will be located in Buffalo, making the city a destination for devotees of Wright’s work.
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