Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of these architects are under 50, which is young in a profession whose only guarantee of big jobs is the slow growth of practical reputation. Apart from age, the main thing they have in common is a fascination with architecture as language. When tradition (including the Modernist tradition) appears in their work, it is quoted rather than adhered to. There is no common style. Above all, they have no uniting ideology, as the Bauhaus or, on a less exalted level, the corporate American architects of the '50s had. Yet they are regularly grouped under one umbrella phrase: Post-Modernism...
...only architect to apply the historicist metaphors of Post-Modernism to a large corporate structure, still unbuilt, is Philip Johnson. And only his age (72) and prestige have enabled him to get away with it. The building in question is the corporate headquarters of the world's largest business, A T & T, to be built in midtown Manhattan. Given its cost of $110 million and the prominence of its site, the building could scarcely fail to provoke argument. But in addition Johnson and Burgee designed it as a summing-up of Post-Modernist building. This prospect fills some architects with...
...long." That could be Philip Johnson's motto. The septuagenenan senior partner in the firm of Johnson-Burgee is a lean immaculately turned out dandy with a merrily cackling laugh, a tongue like a sjambok and a power over taste that no other architect can equal. "Old age," he says, "is the most important single thing to have. You just thumb your nose at the world and go about your business. We take about 10% of the work that comes into the office, and the rest we turn down " Johnson-Burgee and I.M. Pei & Partners...
DIED. Louis de Rochemont, 79. hard-driving film producer who in 1934 joined with Roy Larsen, then circulation manager of TIME, to create the movie newsreel, The March of Time; after a lengthy illness; in York Harbor, Me. Starting his career at age 14 by filming his neighbors with a homemade camera, de Rochemont worked for Fox Movietone News before designing TIME's pioneering monthly film with its blend of news, dramatic re-enactments of events and controversial social comment, punctuated by a dynamic voice announcing "Time marches on!" After leaving March of Time in 1943 (eight years before...
...essential heroes and heroines of our age-in which nobility of behavior too often seems but the prelude to the corruption of celebrity-Anne Frank remains one of the most admirable, quietly exerting her claim on conscience and imagination. It is not just that she was martyred before her sweet, shrewd, unaffected voice could be deadened by self-consciousness and moral certitude. It is also that she had a true artistic gift: a good eye for the telling nuances of human behavior, an instinctively humane spirit, delightedly celebrating the persistence of the ordinary in the most extraordinary circumstances...