Architect Frank Lloyd Wright has been dead for two years, but monuments to his originality are still going up. Now another of his last major buildingsthe Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation*at Wauwatosa (outside Milwaukee)is all but finished, and sightseers as well as worshipers are crowding to see it.
To help him design his first and only Byzantine church, Wright got advice from his Greek Orthodox wife and pondered such examples as Istanbul's Santa Sophia, with its 107-ft.-diameter dome set high on pendentives. But he decided that "it is never necessary to cling slavishly to tradition." He used an equilateral Greek cross...
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