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Cynthia Davidson is former editor of ANY magazine. Her critique of the Chancery of the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C., appeared in the November RECORD.
Hers was an auspicious beginning. Born in a room over the garage in her grandfather's home and studio in Oak Park, Ill., Elizabeth Wright immediately entered a world of architecture. The daughter of architect John Wright and granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, Elizabeth at first wanted to become a physicist. But at 14 she gave up trying to master the concept of infinity and chose, instead, to study and build finite space, to become an architect. ``How very original,'' her mother said upon hearing the news.
Elizabeth Wright Ingraham is a maverick, despite her architectural pedigree. Today, at ``seventy-something,'' she is still working from her own home and studio in Colorado Springs. Her most recent projects, La Casa and the Solaz house, each won Colorado AIA Design Awards, and she was just elected the Colorado AIA president 2002. It is, she says, ``a little bit of a pulpit,'' from which she plans to do a little preaching to the unconverted. ``I'm fed up with the...