(Continued from Friday, June 26, 2015)
In memory of an architect —
Donald Wexler, an architect whose innovative steel houses
and soaring glass-fronted terminal at the Palm Springs
International Airport helped make Palm Springs, Calif.,
a showcase for midcentury modernism, died on Friday
[June 26, 2015] at his home in Palm Desert. He was 89.
— William Grimes in this morning's New York Times
For a different sort of architecture in Palm Desert, see…
For TD Arena …
See also Lincoln Alexander and posts in
this journal just before and on the date of
Alexander's death — Oct. 19, 2012.
* For the title, see Spielfeld posts.
In keeping with the resurrection themes of the
previous post and of "Plan 9 from Outer Space,"
here is a link to the soundtrack of "Field of Dreams."
Related material:
A post of March 11, 2014, on
truth, cornfields, and Rebecca Goldstein —
Dark Fields of the Republic.
R.I.P., James Horner.
The previous post's link to The Lindbergh Manifesto
and Thursday's post on Basel-born artist Wolf Barth
suggest the following —
See as well a June 14 New York Times
piece on Art Basel.
The logo of the University of Basel …
… suggests a review of The Holy Field —
.
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