What designers can learn about creativity from an oddball architecture school in 1950s Oklahoma

After World War II, architecture underwent a transformation. The built environment had been revamped by the ascension of modernism; classical columns and Beaux Arts beauty made way for inventive machine-age Bauhaus visions. The crisp, contemporary style of modernist homes and glass-clad skyscrapers were a revelation. And then, there was the work coming out of the lesser known American School of Architecture at Oklahoma University, which beginning in 1947 was led by the eccentric Bruce...