But an opening half-hour of contemporary rap clicks and crunches pitched partway between the Sugarhill Gang and Nicki Minaj do a fine job of asserting George's standing as a root rap architect.
All but forgotten today, Elihu Root was the true architect of America's transformation from an insular continental nation into a major player on the world stage.
At the same time it makes an extended and tendentious argument, defying conventional wisdom and in some cases basic logic, that Le Corbusier, the Cartesian aesthete, maker of "machines for living in," celebrant of automobiles, biplanes and what he called the "White World," was in fact an architect "profoundly rooted in nature and landscape," as the opening text panel to the exhibition announces.
Burnham and Root would become the architects of choice for the Brooks family, for whom they would complete the first high-rise building in Chicago, the 10-story Montauk Building, in 1883, and the 11-story Rookery Building in 1888.
The team, who have worked together since 2014, also includes Carmen Aguilar y Wedge,a Mexican-American engineer with Cuban roots; Ece Tankal, an architect, moving image maker and multidisciplinary designer from Turkey; and Nitzan Bartov, an architect, game designer and artist from Israel.
Burnham & Root were first named consulting architects, but Burnham resigned that position to become head of construction.
As an architect, he would have designed things rooted to the ground.
Mr. Baan may never put down roots, but he and a friend, the Dutch-born architect Florian Idenburg, are considering building a two-family house in Brooklyn.
INDEED, as with Mackintosh's Glasgow, it was often through one or two renowned architects or designers that Art Nouveau took root in different cities.
Pope and Burton's design was also used for Laie, and their work is rooted in the Prairie style architecture made popular by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the early twentieth-century.
Special buildings include many that are nearly as complete as the fully enclosed buildings that are the province of the architect: greenhouses, conservatories, orangeries, tool sheds, dovecotes, icehouses, root houses, bathhouses, playhouses, and many more.
