March 2008
by Aaron Hoover
Fixing Wright's Wrongs
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Design: Fixing Wright's Wrongs A master mason takes the architect to school Aaron Hoover Few masons would call concrete block walls art, and Ken Uracius is no exception. But Uracius, who specializes in historic masonry preservation, feels the word squares up nicely with the main structural elements of the buildings in his latest project: a little-known Florida college campus designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. "Usually when you get into block work, it's just unitary, nothing fancy," says Uracius, of Holden, Mass., who travels the nation restoring old masonry buildings. "This block work is actually making a statement." (See "The Remaking
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