Bill Wainwright’s Racing Sculpture
Geoffrey Koetsch photo
Bill was a Cambridge treasure. He worked with Bucky Fuller at MIT, studying and then designing geodesic domes, and taught architecture at Harvard, until he quit, grew a beard, and became an artist, producing public art works throughout the U.S. and in Canada.
He contributed to public art in Cambridge with two well-known works. His “Lights at the End of the Tunnel” mobile for many years animated the Porter Square T Station, while his kinetic “Never Green Tree” sculpture still scintillates near the Cambridgeside Galleria.
Lights at the End of the Tunnel Never Green Tree
Bill and his artist wife Clara, who founded First Night, are celebrated in a WBUR special, Visionaries: Creative Power Couple Bill and Clara Wainwright.
Bill died in the summer of 2012 at the age of 87.