Show 6E The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday July 3 1988 Jack Goodman's Cityview Lake and :E:iSalt Similar and Aix-en-Proven- ce: - Unless I'm much mistaken virtually every Salt Laker who returns a European junket welcomes the sight of our city's spacious and :rslatively uncrowded airport and the look of our downclean ultra-wid- e :'aivn streets When your plane has towered its landing gear and headed for the north-sout- h runway the :green peaks of the Wasatch — still -with a bit of snow — provide flecked 4 a wondrous background for city and ':Denchland while the Oquirrh range -- viewed across the surprisingly large :treat Salt Lake adds a second mountain wall to guard the city We are you tell yourself lucky to live in valley one of Ibis mountain-rimme-the most pleasant metropolitan loAales in the nation Next day after you've dealt with and your temporary unfamil: let-laiarity with usually familiar local )cenes you begin a bout of self-queespecially after reading a :Morning Salt Lake Tribune report : concerning new efforts to bring more or their Swiss Italian German or Scandinavian counterparts seem too absorbed when we push tidbits of our local history their way Indeed their eyes may wander just a bit when we speak pridefully of our jack -- G oo d man 19th Century gem of homespun -- -- d g jlourists to :Utah A economically-drows- y "Letter to the Editor" ques lions the placement of a comma on :tocal billboards hailing Utah as a : pretty good place — just as letters once questioned the use of billboards eeking to lure wayfaring strangers -to the "Different World of Utah" 4 I hope then you'll pardon me this iecond column giving readers at -least a cursory view of a French city There's at least a chance focusing :upon similarities and differences cities may teach us to look irith a less jaundiced eye upon our tbwn and upon current efforts to at' tract those very necessary tourist :dollars '':: If your footsteps a 125 mph French train a 100 mph drive on the 1-"freeway" or a perilous trek by :bicycle have ever taken you to you will know it is simir in size and population to our own ' and County It is a provincial — in fact Aix is the longtime cap y ::it -- - n -- 7 ar- chitecture the Salt Lake Mormon Temple But all is not lost you folks at the Utah Travel Council! Tell almost any denizen of a sidewalk cafe on the Cours Mirabeau that ours is a land of cowboys and Indians and he is likely to asked what airline or Amtrak will bring him to Utah to hear warwhoops and gaze upon cowpunchers Show him (or his feminine companion) views of Bryce and Zion and Arches and you've lassoed his interest In other words the wordsmiths at the Travel Council must increasingly stress Utah's relationship to the Wild West — corny as that theme may be There's little point in advertising our Cedar City Shakespeare Festival to people within reach of Stratfordon-Avon There's equally little point in telling the travel agents of LaBelle France that we've a fine Arts Festival or Utah Symphony or Chamber Music Festival at Snowbird For the record the music festival at is a world-beate- r even of visiting orchesits horde though tras vocalists and instrumental soloists must perform in shelterless outdoor squares the courtyards of ancient structures in oddly echoing churches or cramped civic halls Aix you see has no major symphony hall We have the hall they have more patrons Nor does Aix have a splendid hotel mammoth convention center our ultrawide streets or sufficient parking Fact is just about everyone in parks on the sidewalk — sidewalks fouled by dogs at that But boy does that town have ital of Provence just as Salt Lake City the longtime capital of Utah has been considered "provincial" by many residents and for widely or even wildly different reasons Indeed you may be pleased to learn that the citizens of like the citizens of Salt Lake City have been much concerned with preserving their city's old structures In fact they have as many plans committees and planning boards as we do Aix likewise has an irritating problem and a horrific parking problem Both cities boast major universities — but there the similarity ends The newer historic structures of such as the local court-hous- e and clock tower in the sketch accompanying this column date to the 17th century along with the Hotel deVille (the City Hall) St Jean de Malte while a comparatively uncelebrated church was built in the 13th century St Sauveur Cathedral Is older having a Romanesque cloister an early Gothic portal savored by architectural historians and a main structure dating from the llth century While those dates seem rather impressive visitors are counseled that the city was founded by the Roman Consul Sextius Calvinus in 123 BC However the local walls of which remnants still remain didn't prevent the Aixois from being plundered by Franks Lombards and Saracens a few centuries later Such being the case it's not difficult to see why few French tourists ts ambience Its narrow winding streets — lanes and alleys really — are lined with windowed shops cafes and restaurants Nary a shopping I could discover at least As for the Cours Mirabeau that famed street is lined with a double row of trees and ancient reconditioned mansions for its length It boasts a lovely fountain every few hundred feet including a Four Dolphin Fountain that has been spouting clear water since 1667 And one side of the Cours the shady side is literally lined with the outdoor tables of cafes and brasserie& There's mall — none t four-bloc- k Washington Post Writer WASHINGTON — It is an unusual j4kion for a Frank Lloyd Wright toose to be sure but a splendid one 'considering that the house in ques' lion serves as both a billboard for and a principal exhibit in a show of Wright's work and ideas that opened :Friday at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History The house which Wright designed in his eighties and which was never built until this show came along was 'constructed on a platform atop the fountain outside the museum's main entrance on Constitution Avenue NW — a suburban fata morgana on a city street hard by the Artgustinian grandeur of the Federal Triangle museum direc- i As was intended bywho selected the ter Roger Kennedy IBcation the house already has stimulated lots of attention so much so that the museum one of the city's Op summer tourist attractions without any additional ballyhoo has initialed a ticketing system to prevent Overcrowding "We've received more calls so far about this building than anything il Oe've done in recent years" said Foster the museum's public information officer mulling over the fact that while the museum's average daily attendance in the summer is mae than 25000 not many more than 3000 people per day can visit : suit-blaze- d peat a style that may have been appropriate to the past" "It reminds me of Louis Sullivan's line about 'lifting the eyelids of the world' " said Kennedy referring to Wright's early mentor in Chicago "That's what we're doing here You the house comfortably The purpose of the house is twofold "We wanted to give visitors to the show the opportunity to experience the real thing to walk through Wright's spaces after they've seen all the drawings and models and so on" said E Thomas Casey a Taliesin fellow during Wright's lifetime now employed by Taliesin Associated A- could build a house as good as this if you wanted to" The house is based upon what Wright called the Usonian Automatic System the last and most ingenious of his attempts to design homes within the budgets of middle-incom- e people (Where Wright got the word "Usonian" nobody knows — he said he found it in Samuel Butler's utopian novel Erewhon but scholars say the word doesn't appear in that book In any case in Wright's mind it meant both modern and American) In contrast to the wood brick and stone Usonian homes Wright designed and built in the 1940s and 'N rchitects the successor firm to Wright's practice "Mr Wright" he explained re- spectfully "always did this whenever we mounted exhibitions of his work" Casey who helped supervise the construction of such a model house at Wright's Guggenheim Museum during the 1950s adapted these plans for the current exhibition which originated earlier this year in Dallas "This is an idea 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Tho're yours! 74 4 i q 1 '1 : t t ifor I :7 F t: 's vt l'si A k 4"N i Nf k at:i c: ) lici81 it: v iAr emt OT k ' - -- 0 I OE I the Usonian Automatic 1950s houses were to be made almost entirely of concrete block units with plug-iplumbing and electrical features "The idea" Cohen explained "was to use simple repetitious prefabricated components assembled in MI ': :t'f 4:1k80 k "44 'Y ::: VI ?t4t-i- an infinite number of forms in the f ield " The spaces if not the look and feel of the materials are unquestionably Wrightian — the whole comprises an elongated rectangular form with the flat roof and cantilevered overhangs we associate with Wright IMMO V )fi (I 479t 41P SA01Zpli IA 4'''774 41'44 fel f rrillt040)bilAT4 x even a Baskin-Robbin- s oddly attractive to the university students who swarm to the Cours from classes and from the railroad station by day and night Fully 60000 such students double the local population daily arriving in the main by rapid transit electric trains from Marseille 18 miles distant This Salt Laker can't help but wonder why more University of Utah students don't ride the UTA downtown Can it be the lack of sidewalk cafes? To be sure All is not perfect in the capital city of Provence Its local art museum doesn't have a single good Cezanne in its collection — which is not surprising since Paul Cezanne apparently could never sell a single painting to his provincial neighbors Yet the father of the Impressionists was born in Aix and lived and painted there from 1870 till his death in 1906 His studio has now been "reconstituted" — by the dollars of an American art lover But few residents or visitors find their way to his poorly marked studio to gaze upon his easel palette brushes house and garden The latter is so overgrown you can't see the view towards the local mountains Cezanne painted so often But then if you wander in other sectors of Provence and journey to Arles you'll learn that the town in which Van Gogh painted his irises his landlady a pool table and much more (and slice off an ear) has no significant painting by poor Vincent to display in its local gallery But back to Utah tourism The folks at Pioneer Trails State Park who promise chuckwagon rides and MINIMIL ifre 744114:: )Frank Lloyd Wright house part of exhibit By Benjamin Forgey not-so-simil- ar 11 qtaitil CA(S1NO VES Vi 0 |