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...Carlson saw himself and his classmates in such outsized, metaphorical terms. Concentrating in Visual and Environmental Sciences—“I finally ended up there because I could get academic credit for the pictures and movies,” he recalls—Carlson studied the great 20th-century photography of Robert Capa, Larry Burroughs and Henri Cartier-Bresson, hoping some day to follow them in documenting breaking tragedies for the rest of the globe...
...graph paper,” she says and begins by making charts showing the characters’ ages. She then researches their lifespans by finding headlines from old newspapers, as she did for The Blind Assassin, which was set in the first half of the 20th century...
LECTURE | Infinite Potential: Islamic Calligraphy in the 20th and 21st Centuries
...surprise then that some of the best designs from the past are being dusted off and reissued for today's consumer. Maharam, a century-old textile manufacturer, recently introduced its Textiles of the 20th Century series, which includes fabrics by mid-century icons like Alexander Girard and Ray and Charles Eames. "The fact that these were designed 50 years ago and are still as attractive as ever allows people to feel like they're not investing in something that is going to look like 2004 three years from now," says company co-owner Michael Maharam. George Nelson's oversize...
...1920s the prefab idea had seized the imagination of the great visionaries of 20th century architecture, though they approached the question with their usual indifference to public taste. The pioneer modernist Le Corbusier wrote a famous essay in praise of "Mass Production Houses." He just never got around to producing one. Geodesic-dome inventor Buckminster Fuller spent years tinkering with his Dymaxion House. But he insisted on making it circular and steel walled. Americans weren't ready for a house that looked like a flying saucer...