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Frank Lloyd Wright Goes Shopping
It had never been seen before, a fully-enclosed shopping mall that sprawled over 500 acres in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina. Britt Aamodt tells the story of Southdale, the mall that when it opened in 1956 became the model for a thousand imitators but left famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright feeling, "blah."
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Editor: Britt Aamodt
Producer: Britt Aamodt
Editorial support: Emily Krumberger
Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood
Image: Frank Lloyd Wright visits Southdale Mall in 1956. [credit: Collection Minnesota Historical Society]
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