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Even his passing, in 1969, came in the nick of time. The American architect Robert Venturi had just published his influential rejection of less-is-more Miesian modernism ("Less is a bore," Venturi punned), and younger colleagues were starting to grumble that the inspirational rigor of the International Style had turned to rigor mortis. Death spared Mies both from seeing any of the lush species of postmodernism and from the ignominy of a public rejection in 1985, when British authorities denied a die-hard Miesian builder permission to put up a high-rise that Mies had designed for the City...
...jarring transformation worked, and the people came back. Radio City Music Hall Productions revealed last week that it earned $2.5 million in 1985, the first annual profit for the world's largest indoor theater since 1955. Said Richard Evans, chairman of the company and chief architect of the comeback: "Call it the Miracle on Sixth Avenue or whatever, but the Music Hall is again the vibrant, healthy entertainment center that it once...
Terror, insists the protagonist of this ingeniously macabre novel, is the % lodestone of the architect's art. It is a bizarre aesthetic, but then, Nicholas Dyer is hardly your everyday architect. A brooding protege of the great Christopher Wren's, he is carrying out a commission to design seven new churches in the London of the early 18th century. Despite this service to Christianity, Dyer's true, secret faith is satanism. In his crazed vision, those seven churches are temples built to appease the demons of hell, and he sees to it that their stones are washed by the blood...
...mortifying, mercurial Minnesota winter, two 80-man shifts have worked six days a week to finish what is, after all, a kind of fairy-tale church. The picturesque asymmetry, however, saves the palace from seeming grave. "Ours was not a modernist solution," said Karl Ermanis, the palace's chief architect, as if there were any doubts. The designers borrowed from King Ludwig II, Piranesi, Gaudi, Maxfield Parrish and Walt Disney. There are some fetching small touches: off to one side is an ersatz ice ruin and a skull-shaped ice cave...
...morning, I can do it," he says. "And I don't have to wait for a machine. And I don't have to lie down in somebody else's sweat." Even health-club dropouts without a great deal of space manage to find ways to work out at home. Architect David Rockwell, who lives in a Manhattan studio, keeps a fold-up mini-trampoline in the closet and an exercise bicycle in the entryway. Says he: "It looks very ceremonial...