Word: alvaric
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...Graham, and seven American one-act plays. The show was pulling East Berliners over the border. And so was the new Congress Hall itself, along with the nearby Hansa district housing projects by such designers as Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer, U.S. Architect Walter Gropius and Finland's Alvar Aalto (TIME, April 30, 1956). Using the new buildings as the site for a summer-long architectural fair, West Berliners had already attracted 725,000 visitors, including one group of 33 Polish architects, proved that in the struggle for Berlin good architecture is a good weapon...
...Potato Chip. Once Mies had demonstrated that a chair's metal frame could be used in place of springs, Finland's Alvar Aalto showed that the same thing could be done with molded plywood. In the U.S., Architect Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames teamed up in 1940 to produce a molded plywood chair that shifted the emphasis to organic shape, form-fitted to the human body. Using molded plastic, Saarinen then developed the idea into his famed "womb" chair; Eames evolved a whole series, ranging from his early hard-surfaced plywood "potato chip" chair to plastic chairs which...
...Died. Alvaró de Figueroa y Torres, Count de Romanones, 87, "el travieso conde" (the mischievous count), one of Spain's richest grandees, thrice Premier under the late King Alfonso XIII; in Madrid. A sturdy Monarchist, whose Punch-like profile was once a symbol of Bourbon Spain for European political cartoonists, Count de Romanones retired from active politics in 1931, soon after the Republicans forced the King into exile...
...majority of the exhibits looked handsome, efficient, worth taking home. Tubular steel and molded plywood chairs, unornamented chests and tables no longer wore the unfamiliar, revolutionary air which had made an earlier generation snort and settle deeper into its mohair easy chairs. Sample rooms designed by Finland's Alvar Aalto and Manhattan's George Nelson proved that with modern furnishings a home could be simple and yet warm and livable...
Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations and snapshots of their favorite jobs. Princeton itself came in for some sly digs. Philadelphia's George Howe, with an eye to the architecturally mixed but mainly neo-Gothic campus, observed that "collegiate Gothic and collegiate Georgian buildings are neither Gothic nor Georgian nor collegiate, but charnel houses...