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American architecture has spent the past few years in the dumps, fretful and feckless. Aesthetically, there is neither invigorating ferment nor much consensus, and the collapse of both the housing and commercial real estate markets means that even big-name architects have precious little to do right now. So when Richard Meier's final designs for the J. Paul Getty Trust's vast art center, a $360 million, six-building museum-and-art-scholarship wonderland, were unveiled in Los Angeles last week, it wasn't just his envious peers who paid attention. Meier won the commission over 32 fellow architectural...
...television. But Bush's stunning redirection of America's defense priorities last week was the triumph of one of Washington's last druids, a 66-year-old son of a wholesale grocer, who with a blend of self-effacement, crisis management and historical imagination has become the main architect of George Bush's foreign policy...
Allied to this was the city as tomb, both futuristic and archaic, a kind of Mayan ruin referring only to itself, incomprehensible to its antlike inhabitants. This left its most startling images in the expressionist cinema and in the sublime renderings of the American architect Hugh Ferriss, the Piranesi of the skyscraper age. But it also turns up in projects that were, however nominally, designed for the real world, like the huge pink mastabas of the "Metropolis" that Henri Sauvage hoped to raise beside the Seine...
...student-friendly Harvard was when the posh DeWolfe St. housing complex opened. In the recent past, designers of new dormitories (Canaday Hall, Mather House) seemed to have one primary objective: making the buildings riot-proof. But when the DeWolfe St. complex opened, it was clear that the architect had been given another mission: make the building nice...
...Communist Initiative movement alone counts at least 3.5 million sympathizers. Other alternatives are emerging on the fringes of the party. With the tacit approval of Gorbachev, former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze set up a Democratic Reform Movement earlier this month to further perestroika. Last week Alexander Yakovlev, a key architect of Gorbachev's changes, quit the government, presumably to devote his energies to the fledgling movement. Meanwhile, 12 prominent hard-liners called for the creation of a "popular patriotic movement" of their own for "the salvation of the motherland...