Title: The 1950s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: The 1950s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News
The 1950s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News
The 1950s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Topics in the News
ARCHITECTURE
BLACK CHURCH LEADERS AND CIVIL RIGHTS
CARS
TV Dinners
CONFORMITY
FASHION AND FEMININITY
FURNITURE
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Kitsch
RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY
THE SUPREME COURT AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Hollywood and Religious Films
YOUTH FADS AND FASHIONS: CHILDREN
YOUTH FADS AND FASHIONS: TEENAGERS
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Content: Wright was the twentieth-century's leading architect. Even though he already was elderly, and did not live out the decade, Wright created some of his most important works during the 1950s. His Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was a clever variation of a high-rise housing structure. His Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City was a free-form creation in an urban environment. Of the more than eleven hundred public and residential buildings Wright designed during his career, almost one-third were initiated in the 1950s. Quite a few, including the Grady Gammage Auditorium at Arizona State University and churches near Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin, were completed after his death. Van der Rohe designed functional glass, brick, and steel buildings, with concrete slabs creating the ceilings and floors. One of his more expansive projects was the design of the entire campus complex at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, completed between 1938 and 1955. Van der Rohe's teaching position at the institute allowed him to directly influence countless future architects. Additionally, the availability of new construction materials combined with post- World War II optimism to allow designers to create outrageous commercial buildings that seized the attention of the consumer.