A new book on the life work of architect Barry Byrne finally gives the organic modernist architect his due, opines Tribune archicritic Blair Kamin. The scholarly biography shows how Byrne was influenced by mentor Frank Lloyd Wright and how his work deviated toward a different sort of Prairie Style, infused with European avant-garde. After supervising the construction of Wright's Unity Temple, Byrne launched out on his own with a focus on single-family homes and on reshaping Catholic buildings in the Chicago 'burbs and beyond. [Trib]
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